"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it."

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Source : 'Political Register' 22 December 1832

William Cobbett

#Country Quotes #Men Quotes #Age Quotes

“Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.”

Source : "Andrea Corr in Dancing at Lughnasa: 'forget everything you've ever heard about me'". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 13, 2009.
“I try to write every day. Sometimes the things come out well, and sometimes they don't. When they come out well you think, Wow, I must be really great; and when they come out poorly, you think you must be terrible, but the truth is that's how any process works.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.”
“The only way two ever live more cheaply than one is if one of them gives up what he or she wants.”
“I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a lot. In New York, it can be gray and rainy and cold, and you still don't have any money, and you feel like a bad Dickens character.”
“I grew up in a house with very few books.”
“Failing is not a disgrace unless you make it the last chapter of your book.”
“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”

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