"The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Wise Quotes #Dark Quotes #Garden Quotes

“If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied intensely for clues about the nature and origin of human society. Consequently it was an injury to science and human knowledge to allow the military to simply exterminate them.”
“A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.”
“Every human heart has a deep need to love - to be in love, really, with all of life. This is the kind of love that comes when the mind is still. . . . Be still and know that we are all Godâ€™s children; then you will be in love with all.”
“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”
“Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!”
“I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.”
“Then shift to intention. Not what I find missing in my life, but to what I absolutely intend to manifest and attract into my life...”
“Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.”

Source : Annie Fellows Johnston (1909). “The Jester's Sword: How Aldebaran, the King's Son, Wore the Sheathed Sword of Conquest”

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