"Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward."

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Source : Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1970). “Thirty tales & sketches”

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

#Rewards Quotes #Doe Quotes #Should Quotes

“Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.”
“I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.”

Source : "‘Baseball’ & chain" by Sean Daly, nypost.com. November 17, 2011.
“To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served.”
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”
“You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.”
“What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.”
“We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”
“I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.”

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