"A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight."

-- John James Audubon

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“Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.”
“When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".”
“I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day.”
“Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.”
“I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.”
“I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.”
“Obviously the audience has veto power signified by whether they laugh or not, but you-not them-retain the ultimate power to decide what they're going to get the opportunity to laugh at.”

Source : Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”
“Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that London as we see her is only the latest manifestation of other Londons, and to lover her is to plunge into ancestor-worship.”

Source : Henry Vollam Morton (1951). “In Search of London”

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