"Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up"

-- Cyprian Norwid

“What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.”
“I met Elvis in your woods one night,â€ Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. â€œI knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself.”
“Before using a fine word, make a place for it.”
“Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.”
“She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.”

Source : Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.29, Hachette UK
“My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.”
“You either have to be first, best, or different.”
“Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.”

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