"I am willing to taste any drink once."

-- James Branch Cabell

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“Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.”
“There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.”

Source : Tadeusz Borowski (1967). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories”
“I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin the right notes or the wrong notes.”
“I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian childs existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger.”
“If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he wrote to her: "The miracle occurred; I realized that in addition to all the suffering I had caused, I was not my own master. I decided this slavery must stop once and for all." And it did.”
“Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.”
“If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.”

Source : Romain Rolland (1960). “The life of Ramakrishna, 6th ed”

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