"Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him."

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Source : John Aubrey (1857). “Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects”, p.128

John Aubrey

#Kings Quotes #Hands Quotes #Noses Quotes

“Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.”
“For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.”

Source : Alexandra Potter (2004). “Calling Romeo”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“I did pass the bar in Pennsylvania. I can practice Amish law. But it's long expired, my bar license.”
“I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.”
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
“Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of”
“It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it is my greatest pleasure to work energetically, sharing my joys and sorrows with our people, on the road of translating my wish into reality.”

Source : Response to questions from Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency, October 13, 2011.
“Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.”

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