"My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton."

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Osbert Sitwell

#Holiday Quotes #Eton Quotes

“THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea”
“As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so also can no investigator point out the origin of Medicine - mysterious as the source of the Nile.”

Source : Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.11
“I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.”
“There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.”
“That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.”
“There isn't anything I don't eat, although I'm not too keen on creepy crawly things. Other than that, I'm quite adventurous. I like all types of red meat, and I'm not a fussy eater at all.”
“If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.”

Source : "CBS Blames Jovan Belcher Murder-Suicide on 'Gun Culture' in NFL and U.S". "CBS This Morning", www.mrc.org.
“New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”

Source : James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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