"Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man."

-- H. Rider Haggard

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“Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.”

Source : Thornton Wilder (1962). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”, New York : Limited Editions Club
“I don't enjoy trying things on, even though most times it's necessary. I tend to only shop online, which is so dangerous for me.”
“Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.”
“I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so.”
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

Source : "Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington". Book by Marguerite Countess of Blessington, 1834.
“I'm just a wimpy baby. We almost called the band Forever Teens because I feel like we're all kind of permanently youthful.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.”
“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”

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