"England is surrounded by enemies-by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free."

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Source : "Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z". Book by Thomas B. Reed, 1903.

George Augustus Henry Sala

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“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .”
“Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.”
“If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time...”

Source : Champfleury (1885). “The Cat, Past and Present”
“Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.”
“Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.”
“The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evilâ€™s whole structure away.”
“When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over”
“What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.”

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