"How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!"

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Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

Thomas Love Peacock

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“We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.”
“However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.85, Anza Publishing
“I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.”
“There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.”
“Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you do all of those things, but it also shows the performers in a very raw state. They have to literally upset themselves to get to that position sometimes. You don't need a load of people judging you or not being interested in what you're doing or being an ass on set because it ruins it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.”
“You can't love nature with a gun”
“Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.”

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