"The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood."

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Source : Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1684). “An essay on translated verse”, p.11

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

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“A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.”

Source : Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.172, Anchor
“"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."”
“Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act of caring, of giving, the act of protecting the weak, the helpless, the imprisoned and the desperate. Love is the hand raised in defence. You cannot love and keep your hands clean.”

Source : Patricia Duncker (1999). “James Miranda Barry”
“Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.”
“Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”
“Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.”
“History is a game played backwards only.”
“My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Senator Bob Corker (R, Tenn.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 18, 2010.

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