"Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions."

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Source : Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

Virgilia Peterson

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“Girls have to be strong to protect the men they love.”
“I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.”
“One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.”
“Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.
“Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!”
“Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.”

Source : moss hart (1959). “act one”
“God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.”
“Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.”

Source : Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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