"The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something."

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Source : Osbert Sitwell (1977). “Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography”

Osbert Sitwell

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“If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.”
“Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever.”

Source : Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.260, Library of Alexandria
“Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is to do it brilliantly.”
“The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.
“Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.”
“After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.”
“I cannot morally blame all Americans for allowing, for instance, the birth of the Federal Reserve System and the money destruction that has followed. They are simply ignorant about it and donâ€™t know what happened or what is happening. They think that prices go up rather than that dollars go down.”
“I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the first thing I do is rowing. And that's when I listen to a lot of music.”

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