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“We do not write as we want, but as we can.”
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“Speech is the best show a man puts on.”
Source : Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.249, MIT Press
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“Christ did not make the atonement when he shed his blood upon the cross. Let this fact be fixed forever in the mind.”
Source : URIAH SMITH (1877). “THE SANCTUARY AND THE TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED DAYS OF DANIEL VIII. 14”
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“The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.”
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“Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.”
Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.”
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“History will look back, and I'm fully prepared to accept any mistakes that history judges to my administration, because the president makes the decisions, the president has to take the responsibility.”
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“Unexplained noises are best left unexplained.”
Source : John Bellairs (2014). “The Face in the Frost”, p.25, Open Road Media
