"The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury."

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Source : Letter in 'Pall Mall Gazette', 30 November 1886

John Bright

#Luxury Quotes #Language Quotes #Ancient Quotes

“For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair.”
“Some things take root in the brain and just don’t let go.”
“When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.”
“I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.”

Source : "From ‘Misery’ to Twilight : Conversations With Maroon 5’s Adam Levine and Fanfarlo’s Simon Balthazar". Interview With Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2010.
“It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other parts of the House, but we have Nothing well in hand here. I understand Nothing as no one else does! - Grim Tuesday”
“If you're in something and you feel like it's not going well, what can you do about that? It's out of your hands. No matter what you do, you're not going to fix that as an actor.”
“This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.”
“There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.”

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