"Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane..."

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Alexander Pushkin

#Wine Quotes #Mistress Quotes #Vain Quotes

“We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.”
“I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.”
“I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.”
“Alexander von Humboldtâ€™s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Personâ€™s stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present.”
“It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.”
“Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.”

Source : Babur (Emperor of Hindustan), Wheeler McIntosh Thackston (2002). “The Baburnama: memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor”, Modern Library
“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”

Source : Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.277, Penguin
“He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual rights led some to anoint him the moral conscience of the court.”

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