"Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty."

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Source : Edmund Pendleton (1967). “The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803”

Edmund Pendleton

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“The past isn't real because it's history, and the future isn't because it hasn't happened yet. I like it, it hints at virtual reality, which I think is how we sort of feel about life sometimes.”
“Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.”
“In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.”
“Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.”
“You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.”
“When I was a little bit younger The strain I was under could make me cry. Now I'm a little bit older, A little bit bolder, Never so shy”
“I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.”
“...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By the transport of books, that which is most foreign becomes one's familiar walks and avenues; while that which is most familiar is removed to delightful strangeness; and unmoving, one travels infinite causeways, immobile and thus unfettered.”

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