"You know, up until later on today, I never really knew how to drink."

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Source : Mary Robison (2009). “One D.O.A., One on the Way: A Novel”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

Mary Robison

#Today Quotes #Drink Quotes

“The best university is the university of life.”
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”

Source : L. Frank Baum (2008). “8 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, Volume 2 of 2. Little Wizard Stories of Oz, Tik-Tok of Oz, The Scarecrow Of Oz, Rinkitink In Oz, The Lost Princess Of Oz,”, p.388, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
“If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.”

Source : Garet Garrett (1965). “The People's Pottage”
“It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.”
“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.”
“I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.”
“In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.”

Source : Johannes Tauler, Charles Kingsley (1858). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)”, p.384
“If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.”

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