"A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also."

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Source : John Gower (1857). “Confessio amantis”, p.147

John Gower

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“Putin has succeeded in many ways in making Russia an essential player there. He seems to have stabilized the Assad regime. And he has limited the options for the U.S. and its allies, you know. He has air control over a significant amount of territory. And he can prevent the allies from establishing a no-fly zone there.”

Source : "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.
“In ten years, or certainly before then, I'd like to not only be continuously busy as an actor playing tormented, playful characters in film and television but also have gotten a few of my own films made.”
“Rarely do I ever think of my music as inspired but I guess it must be. Perhaps I would use the word "crockpotted" or "pressure-cooked".”

Source : Source: blog.ourvinyl.tv
“Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.”

Source : "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.
“When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.”
“There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.”
“Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.”

Source : Letter to Max Eastman, 1936.
“We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.”

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