"Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of."

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Source : Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) (1809). “The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents”, p.23

Elizabeth Montagu

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“Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.”

Source : "Me and my travels". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2007.
“I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were being killed. We were terrorizing the North Vietnamese with our enormous Air Force. They had no Air Force at all. They were a little pitiful country and we were terrorizing them with our bombs. And no, I did not feel proud at all.”
“Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration”
“Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.”
“I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 5, 2009.
“My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance, indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.”

Source : Adam Sedgwick (1850). “A Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge”, p.45
“When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.”

Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2001). “Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass”, Ivan R Dee

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