"Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins."

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Source : John Hay (1916). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay: Including Many Poems Now First Collected”

John Hay

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Age Quotes

“When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon.”
“Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?”
“The two circled around the back of the house, making sure that nobody saw them. Once inside, they found Patrick right where they had left him, sitting in front of Mark's computer. The only difference was that he was surrounded by bags of Doritos and cans of Mountain Dew. He looked up at them with wild eyes. You okay?" Courtney asked. I'm fantastic!" Patrick exclaimed. "This sugary drink is incredible!" Swell," Courtney remarked sarcastically. "He's wired on Dew.”
“In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing”
“When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.”
“I'm an optimistic guy.It's just as much the case that people will come to me and ask my opinion about how to properly include the Muslim community, as it is that people will come with some hateful stuff too. When people come to me about my religion, it's not always a thing of "we don't want people like you here," which happens sometimes. But mostly it's people who would like to know more. I get a chance to help people understand the religion better.”

Source : Source: harvardpolitics.com

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