"Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live."

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Source : "The Hermit's Emergency Shelf". "How to Be a Hermit or a Bachelor Keeps House". Book by Will Cuppy, 1929.

Will Cuppy

#Live And Learn Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.”

Source : "Aging" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.
“Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.”
“Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.”
“Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.”
“There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.”

Source : Kate Bornstein (2012). “A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today”, p.164, Beacon Press
“Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.”
“If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.”
“I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside down and is being used as an extra table in the kitchen and i cannot have it until spring, so I just spread goose grease on my rash. The dogs are following me everywhere.”

Source : Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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