"I had the constitution of a missionary."

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Source : Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

Alexandra Fuller

#Health Quotes #Missionary Quotes #Constitution Quotes

“Who thinks you're as fantastic as your dog does?”
“The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.”
“I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.”
“[My subjects] look lost because that is how I see life. I think we are all a bit lost, lost in a world we can't understand.”
“The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.”
“It is the property of fools to be always judging.”
“Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 8, 2018
“I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.”

Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.156, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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