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“There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.”
Source : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.96, Broadview Press
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“Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.”
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“The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.”
Source : Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”
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“The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.”
Source : Liz Curtis Higgs (1993). “One Size Fits All and Other Fables”, Thomas Nelson Publishers
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“But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.”
Source : Bill Simmons (2009). “The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy”, p.44, ESPN
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“Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.”
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“I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.”
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“The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.”
Source : Charles Perrault (1942). “The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696”, p.4, Library of Alexandria
