"And I've been wearing specs since I was three."

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William Golding

#Three Quotes #Specs Quotes

“Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.”
“Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother”
“Better a days catch of fish than a lifetime of crabs.”
“Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.”
“The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure, his art originated in the necessity for clothing such creatures, but this was long ago; to this day a shape will occasionally appear which will fit into the garment as if the garment had been made for it. Then there is no end of surprise and delight.”
“Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.”
“It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.”
“It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.”

Source : Arthur S. Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1926). “The Internal Constitution of the Stars”, p.393, Cambridge University Press

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