"Just a wee cot-the crickets chirr-love and the smiling face of her."

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Source : James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.357, Indiana University Press

James Whitcomb Riley

#Love Quotes #Faces Quotes #Cricket Quotes

“Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.”
“I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only a widely practised dilettantism, the chemists are ashamed to call themselves chemists because the pharmacists, who are despised, have assumed this name.”
“I've got to play in front of people. If I'm not moved, how can they be moved.”
“Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.”
“I was born into a world that was already dying; I belong to it.”
“Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.”
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”

Source : New Statesman 25 Feb. 1933
“I think we can all agree that sleeping around is a great way to meet people.”

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