"The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me."

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Bill Bryson

#Men Quotes #Twelve Quotes #Hours Quotes

“Great obstacles make great leaders.”
“Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.28
“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
“Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.”
“I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of music.”
“To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.”
“The Six Faces of the FUTURE are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.”

Source : "Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.

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