Quotes
Authors
Edward Gibbon

"In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows, white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and am impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator."

-- Edward Gibbon

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“You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray. (how to calm a crying baby)”
“Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.”

Source : "Lochiel'sWarning" l. 55 (1801)
“This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well.”
“We only think when we are confronted with problems.”
“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”
“Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.”

Source : Jenny Nimmo (2012). “Children of the Red King #2: Charlie Bone and the Time Twister”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.
“The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the effect of a fog - gives things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.”
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded â€” here and there, now and then â€” are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.”

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