"Pessimism does win us great happy moments."

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Source : Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.88, 1st World Publishing

Max Beerbohm

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“The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.”
“I'm giving good advice everyday however I can help. People will hit me up and ask me all types of questions. I really don't know too much except what I've gone through, but whatever knowledge I have, I try and give.”
“Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.”

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“Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.”

Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”
“Language is the primary way we communicate with each other, and we have really strong feelings about what words mean, and about good language and bad. Those things are really based on sort of an agglutination of half-remembered rules from high school or college, and our own personal views on language and the things we grew up saying, the things we grew up being told not to say.”

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“We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.”
“The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.”
“Business and investing are team sports.”

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