"The rain sounded like it was washing the whole world away."

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Source : Jodi Lynn Anderson (2006). “Peaches”, HarperCollins Children's Books

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#Rain Quotes #World Quotes

“Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.”

Source : Letter to his son, in Harold Nicolson 'Dwight Morrow' (1935) ch. 3
“There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.”
“There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.”

Source : "On Sir John A. Macdonald". Toronto Star, October 9, 1964.
“School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.”

Source : Bequest to the Academic Youth of Soviet Russia, 27 February (1936)
“It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
“War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)”
“May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.”
“A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.”

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