"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."

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Source : P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Uneasy Money: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.349, ReadHowYouWant.com

P. G. Wodehouse

#Women Quotes #Age Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.”
“Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.”
“I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.”
“It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.”
“Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.”

Source : Lorine Niedecker (2013). “Lake Superior”, p.52, Wave Books
“There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.”

Source : 1981 A Fourth Innings with Cardus.
“Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.”

Source : Dispatches ch. 3 (1977)
“Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness." The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity.”

Source : Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.60, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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