"We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Writing Quotes #Conversation Quotes #Should Quotes

“We can all be free Maybe not with words Maybe not with a look But with your mind”

Source : Song: Maybe Not, Album: You Are Free, 2003
“We are here for the world, not for our comfort only.”
“I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.”
“Don't make me flip you off" "Why would I deprive you of a favourite hobby?" "Because my finger's getting sore.”
“Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?"”
“You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.”

Source : John Henninger Reagan's speech (January 15, 1861), as quoted in the Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 2nd Session (p. 391); also quoted in Kenneth M. Stampp "The Causes of the Civil War" (p. 89), 1959.
“Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”
“The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.”

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