"There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep."

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Source : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

Esther Meynell

#Silly Quotes #Animal Quotes #Sheep Quotes

“Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.”
“Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.”
“Error is the price we pay for progress.”
“We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.”
“I could have been a great many things.”
“How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.”
“Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord.”

Source : John Gibson Paton, James Paton (1904). “The Story of John G. Paton, Told for Young Folks: Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals. Rearranged and Edited by James Paton”
“You have to keep practicing, if you're really going to be good.”

Source : Source: grigwaretalkstheatre.blogspot.com

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