"it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of prejudice which rose between us and our fellows in youth melt away as the sun goes down. At last we see God's creatures as they are."

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Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.129, Vanderbilt University Press

Rebecca Harding Davis

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“People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.”
“He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.”

Source : Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.99, Transaction Publishers
“I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.”
“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”
“As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.”

Source : "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". Interview, www.npr.org. 1988.
“Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.”
“Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)”
“Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.”

Source : Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dust & Decay”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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