"Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation."

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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“[On a high school visit by Destiny's Child:] Then they appeared, golden Glamazons resplendent in hot pants the size of a dryer sheet and gold stiletto boots. The kids in the front row, clearly on funkiness overload, had the walleyed look of the Today's Catch section of the supermarket.”
“The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.”
“I'm standing under a sign that says, 'Budweiser is king of beers,' and everybody's got their beers here today," I told them. "But I'm here to talk about the King of Kings. I know I might look like a preacher, but I'm not. Here's how you can tell whether someone's a preacher or not: if he gets up and says some words and passes a hat for you to put money in, that's a preacher. This is free. This if free of charge, which proves I'm not a preacher.”
“The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.”

Source : Jim Trelease (2013). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition”, p.27, Penguin
“An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.”

Source : Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.38, Harper Collins
“Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.”
“How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.”
“Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to crowd out the important ones.”

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