"Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home."

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Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “The Sympaty of Religions”, p.16

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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“Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.”
“I don't say anything. One of the reporters asked me in the scrum in there, and I said, no, I didn't say anything to anybody. I can only hurt them right now. I cannot help them.”

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“The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.77, Vintage
“What are you doing, looking at me with one eye and chasing a fly with the other?”
“Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.”
“No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.188, Transaction Publishers
“I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.”
“When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done”

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