"I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature."

Source : Robert Boyle (1738). “The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine. The Whole Illustrated with Notes, Containing the Improvements Made in the Several Parts of Natural and Experimental Knowledge Since His Time. In Three Volumes. By Peter Shaw, M.D.”, p.28

Robert Boyle

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“I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.”
“Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.”
“But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?”
“I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it.”

Source : "Richard Sherman Still Talking, Taunting This Morning" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. January 20, 2014.
“If I had a crush on a guy, my tactic was to tell them I had a crush on them. And they always thought it was super-cute, so it usually worked in my favor!”

Source : "What Was Leven Rambin Like at 17?". Interview with Ellen Collis, www.seventeen.com. January 9, 2012.
“Look, here are we on this starry night staring into space, and I must say I feel as small as dust lying down here.”
“Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.”

Source : Paul Johnson (2009). “Churchill”, p.9, Penguin
“I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.”

"I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature."

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