"We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves."

-- Daniel Defoe

#Race Quotes #Thieves Quotes #Ancestry Quotes

“If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!”
“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.”
“You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.”
“What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.”

Source : Tanya Huff (2011). “Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy”, p.7, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
“Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.”
“Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.”
“I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.”
“I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.”

Source : "Foundations of a General Theory of Aggregates". Book by Georg Cantor, 1883.

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