"Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand."

-- Lawrence Durrell

#Law Quotes #Giving Quotes #Dating Quotes

“I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.”
“I love America. You always hurt the one you love.”
“I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.”
“I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass”
“Our understanding is correlative to our perception.”
“No taxation without respiration.”
“You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for the labours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers.”

Source : John Smith (2006). “Generall Historie of Virginia Vol 1: New England & the Summer Isles”, p.174, Applewood Books
“Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great and good who now cluster around the banner of the country, there exists no purer spirit, no more heroic soul, than that of the illustrious man whose death I join you in lamenting.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.38

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