"Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love."

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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“I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.”
“I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.”

Source : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Michael Teague (1981). “Mrs. L.: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth”, Doubleday Books
“A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one and only reality. In such cases we have a sense in which the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be performer and observer of the same show. Presumably he introcepts or incorporates the standards he attempts to maintain in the presence of others so that even in their absence his conscience requires him to act in a socially proper way.”
“And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.”
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
“Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”
“Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.”
“The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.”

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