"Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward."

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Source : "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. August Chapter, 1986.

Flora Thompson

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“I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?'”
“We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.”
“I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.”
“I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.”
“Have the boldness to tell yourself the truth - every bit of it.”
“If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indianwe can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.”
“Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?”
“An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.”

Source : Johnson v. Harris, 3 W.R. 104, 1854.

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