"An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country."

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Source : 1811 'Journal 3' in F Sidgwick (ed) The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).

Marjorie Fleming

#Country Quotes #Dirty Quotes #Towns Quotes

“You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.”
“There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.”
“I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'”
“Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth...”
“The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.”
“With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.”
“My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.”

Source : Vernon Jordan (2009). “Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir”, p.30, PublicAffairs
“My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.”

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