"Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world."

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Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1944). “Literature in New England: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915”, New York Garden City [1944]

Van Wyck Brooks

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“It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“FCA is a place where young people, many of whom are unchurched, can come and hear the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Most sex scenes in Hollywood movies are so boring. It's basically a $20 million guy kissing a $7 million woman, and rolling around and semi-humping.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I suppose once upon a time a Test match was something you looked forward to go and watch. It's very hard to get the quality these days because the focus is more on quantity.”
“Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.”
“It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.”

Source : Dennis v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1950)
“The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.”

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