"A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ..."

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Source : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

Dorothy Nevill

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“The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?”
“Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”
“Our brains will destroy ourselves if we don't put it outward.”

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“Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.”
“The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.”

Source : Ernst Bacon, Sara Davis Buechner (2011). “Notes on the Piano”, p.117, Courier Corporation
“It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.”

Source : Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.63
“The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.”
“I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.”

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