"I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive."

-- Kim Harrison

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“Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.”

Source : Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1818). “Sermons by J. B. Massillon, Bishop of Clermont: To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author”, p.200
“What had started out as a game was now an open challenge, as well as a direct threat. Any further action would bear results, it was clear from the way his gaze smoldered into mine. In that way, it was like an optical erection.”
“Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.”
“But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?”
“Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means ...”
“The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.”
“It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.120
“Politicians are fond of criticizing others.”

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