"Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed."

-- Walter de La Mare

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“A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.”
“the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us...”
“I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.”
“I feel I rise to the occasion when the pressure's on my shoulders.”
“For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.”
“I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.”

Source : "Louise Mensch: 'We're not all ogres'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.
“Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.”

Source : "The Pessimist". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
“We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.”

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