"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

-- Saint Augustine

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“If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?”
“Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.”
“France lost a great novel last night.”
“Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!”
“You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.”

Source : Peter Ackroyd (2001). “The Collection”, Random House Uk Limited
“I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.”
“Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus.”
“Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.”

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