"What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

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“There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.”
“Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?”

Source : Martin Gardner (2006). “Aha! A Two Volume Collection: Aha! Gotcha Aha! Insight”, MAA
“For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.”
“One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr
“Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.”
“God teaches you to forgive people when they mistreat you. That's something that we have to do as Christians, as children of God. It's very hard to do. It's very, very hard. When someone lies on you, when someone tries to ruin your reputation, because everyone knows what kind of person I am.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.”
“There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.”

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