"Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!"

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Source : Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.341, The Floating Press

Marie Corelli

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“I don't even remember if he hurt me with even one punch. Amazing what the result is.”
“I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.”
“This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American thinkers had come to believe that all parts of their balanced governments represented in one way or another the sovereign people. They had left the Aristotelian idea of mixed estates - monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy - way behind. [John] Adams had not, and his stubbornness on this point caused him no end of trouble.”

Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org
“I experimented with weed, Ecstasy, mushrooms and mescaline for about a year and a half.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: First Look at Melissa Joan Hart's Tell-All Book: Inside Her Secret Partying and Drug Use" by Chantal Waldholz, www.lifeandstylemag.com. February 5, 2014.
“There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.”

Source : "Gallup CEO Blasts Press's Complacency in Covering Unemployment and Underemployment" by Tom Blumer, www.newsbusters.org. February 4, 2015.
“Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports.”
“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”
“I personally love lingerie. I've been buying, shopping and modeling in lingerie for 10 plus years. So, for women who are shopping for the first time, I'd say start with the basics and work your way up. Definitely buy a variety and start with something that is comfortable and then work your way up to more flirty and lacey pieces. Comfort is key.”

Source : Source: www.hollywood.com

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