"Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!"

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Source : Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1952). “Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence”

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#Love You Quotes #Boys Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.”
“32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16. Double it times three, we got 48. Which mean a whole lot of cream. Divide the profit by four. Subtract it by eight. We back to 16.”
“Concentrate on small segments of your race at a time. For example, rather than obsessing about the distance that remains, simply complete the next mile in good form...try another, then another, until the race is done.”
“The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.”
“The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.”
“In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.”
“The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.”
“I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.”

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