"The house of every one is to him as his castle."

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Source : Semayne's Case (1603)

Edward Coke

#House Quotes #Castles Quotes #Patriot Quotes

“It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.”
“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
“I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.”
“I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.”
“advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.”
“We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.”
“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”
“When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.”

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