"If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind."

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Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.28, Elizabeth von Arnim

Elizabeth von Arnim

#Hurt Quotes #Angel Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as wellknown as Henry Ford's, for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the new means of popular transportation. Instead of a car in every garage, there will be a helicopter.... These 'copters' will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for teenage youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the sky as the bicycles of our youth filled the prewar roads.”
“Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.”
“How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!”

Source : George Elliston (1929). “Cinderella cargoes: poems for poets and for those who love poetry”
“Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.”
“Letâ€™s get one thing straight: Mexican food takes a certain amount of time to cook. If you donâ€™t have the time, donâ€™t cook it. You can rush a Mexican meal, but you will pay in some way. You can buy so-called Mexican food at too many restaurants that say they cook Mexican food. But the real food, the most savory food, is prepared with time and love and at home. So, give up the illusion that you can throw Mexican food together. Just understand that you are going to have to make and take the time.”
“One of the most effective strategies to make your child more self-control is the weekly giving of allowance or pocket money as an opportunity for parents to teach self-control and model self-control. So rather than just handing the child the money and leaving it at that, the parent hands them a modest amount that has to be managed through the week, sits with the child and takes the time to anticipate what's going to be coming up next week, what the child would like to do and helps them to make choices and understand the limited amount of money they have.”
“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.”
“I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.”

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