"Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause."

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Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

Matthew Simpson

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“I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.”
“Life is mostly just learning how to lose.”
“This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.”
“The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.”
“Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
“In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.”

Source : Henri Lefebvre (2010). “Everyday Life in the Modern World: Second Revised Edition”, p.172, A&C Black

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