"Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified."

-- James Russell Lowell

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“Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books
“The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.”
“It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.”
“That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.”
“I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.”
“What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?”

Source : Peter Ustinov (2011). “Dear Me”, p.203, Random House
“When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.”
“There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!”

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