"An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it."

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Emily Post

#Truth Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Coffee Quotes

“It's not going to be easy, but it's going to be awesome. Awesome Ain't Easy.”
“The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.”

Source : Roger Ascham, Edward Grant, Giles Ascham (1864). “The Whole Works of Roger Ascham: Letters continued and Toxophilus”
“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
“Potential audiences are real people found in real places.”
“I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can.”
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
“You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.48, Faber & Faber
“Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the way. At one point I wanted to illustrate Jack Prelutsky's enchanting poems. Unable to do that, I started devising and improvising my own poems, very raw at first. I immersed myself in verse, writing reams of stuff until it gelled.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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