"And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets."

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Dorothy Dunnett

#Army Quotes #Men Quotes #Sheep Quotes

“If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we're all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her.”
“You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.”

Source : Robert Anthony (1986). “The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence”, p.26, Penguin
“It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile is the man who can smile when his shorts are too tight in the seat.”

Source : "Fictional character: Judge Elihu Smails". "Caddyshack", 1980.
“Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait”

Source : Blaise Cendrars (1966). “Selected writings”
“It's just a crazy damned life, that's all ...”

Source : Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.151, Hachette UK
“In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.”
“If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”
“No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.”

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