"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."

-- Walter Scott

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“French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.”

Source : Sarah Turnbull (2011). “Almost French”, p.21, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isnâ€™t something thatâ€™s easy to oppose. It doesnâ€™t always stare you in the face. It moves in the shadows. And sometimes it shrouds itself within the very laws meant to protect us.”
“But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps itâ€™s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise wonâ€™t come true.”
“No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed', at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play 'Creep'. Get over it.”

Source : "'U2 should shut up about Africa', says Noel Gallagher". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 8, 2007.
“French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.”
“It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.”
“My mother always says: "You know better, so you'll be punished. Your friends don't know better, so they won't be punished. They can go snatch chains and they'll be fine. But if you snatch chains, you'll end up in jail because you know better."”
“No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.”

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