"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."

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Source : John Aubrey (1969). “Natural history of Wiltshire”

John Aubrey

#Journey Quotes #Oxford Quotes #Silver Quotes

“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”
“Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.”
“You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.”
“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.”
“It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.”

Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster
“What is that song they are singing Is it an old Yorkshire ditty you know like that 'On Ilkley Moor Bar T'at' " Ruby said "Nah it's a football song. It goes 'We hate Chelsea we hate Chelsea we are the Chelsea haters.”
“It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.”
“Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.”

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