"An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch."

-- Daniel Defoe

#Two Quotes #Literature Quotes #Dutch Quotes

“It's inappropriate for the queen of the dead to be afraid of ghosts.”
“What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.”

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“He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought.”
“Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.”

Source : 1871 Scrambles Amongst the Alps.
“When you're 12, a 12-year-old girl is so out of your league, because they have no interest in you. You're like 10 years younger. You're 2 to them.”

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“The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later researches in their proper light. A division of the (disc-shaped) embryo into an animal and a plastic part first takes place. In the lower part (the plastic or vegetative layer) are a serous and a vascular layer, each of peculiar organization. In the upper part also (the animal or serous germ-layer) two layers are clearly distinguishable, a flesh-layer and a skin-layer. (1828)”
“There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.”
“As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.”

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