"I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities."

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Source : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

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“True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.”

Source : David Richo (1999). “Shadow Dance”, p.39, Shambhala Publications
“By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.”
“I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen.”
“There is chaos behind the civility, of course.”
“Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.”
“Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride Jump out all ways with happiness their guide; And from my brushing feet moths flit away In safer places to pursue their play. In crowds they start. I marvel, well I may, To see such worlds of insects in the way, And more to see each thing, however small, Sharing joy's bounty that belongs to all. And here I gather, by the world forgot, Harvests of comfort from their happy mood, Feeling God's blessing dwells in every spot And nothing lives but owes him gratitude.”
“Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.”
“Thatâ€™s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another wayâ€”which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.”

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