"The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees..."

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Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.48

Charles Stuart Calverley

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“I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.”
“It was a pretty posh place. They were so used to fur coats that two bears strolled in and ordered lunch and nobody even noticed.”
“Because, life's too short, my friends. Let's squeeze in as many laughs as we can get.”

Source : Neil Pasricha (2010). “The Book of Awesome”, p.275, Penguin
“A good composer does not imitate; he steals.”

Source : In Peter Yates Twentieth Century Music (1967) pt. 1, ch. 8. Cf. T. S. Eliot 76:8, Lionel Trilling 218:1
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

Source : Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”
“Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.”
“I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.”

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