"A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian."

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Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

Robert Aris Willmott

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“I grew up in a haunted castle, boys. If you've never had a ghost try to push you down the stairs, you've never lived.”
“We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.”

Source : Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage
“If you look at someone like Kim Coates, you realize that hes been in everything.”

Source : "Theo Rossi Interview SONS OF ANARCHY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2011.
“I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.”
“You know, I've held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.”

Source : Wayne Gretzky, Reilly, Rick (1990). “Gretzky, An Autobiography”, Harper & Collins
“You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.”
“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”

Source : Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.204, Faber & Faber
“Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.”

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