"If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you."

-- Alistair Begg

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“If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.”
“The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.”
“It is always the unreadable that occurs.”
“I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass. My whole family has always pushed the arts, you know? My brother is a doctor of music and my cousin is an opera singer over in Austria. Arts were always a big thing in our family.”
“We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.”
“I remember Grace (Coddington) looking at me and said, 'Can you do something?' and I was like, 'OK, how long do you give me?' and she said 'Half an hour?', I said 'Forty-five minutes?'”
“The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.”
“By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.”

Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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