"I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me"

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Source : 'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 2, sc. 2

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Character Quotes #Particular Quotes #Behinds Quotes

“Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.”
“I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible.”

Source : Helena Norberg-Hodge (2017). “Ancient Futures, 3rd Edition”, p.172, Chelsea Green Publishing
“But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.”

Source : 'Tam o' Shanter' (1791) l. 59
“NASCAR logic isn't always logical.”
“What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.”
“The history of a people are found in its songs.”
“Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.”
“To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.”

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