"Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us."

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Source : Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

Barbara Holland

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“Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.”
“We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1852). “Philip van Artvelde; a dramatic romance ... Second edition”, p.32
“Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.”
“Examples are few of men ruined by giving.”
“For some in Washington, it's become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don't have a good government workforce.”
“Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason”
“The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines... The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.”
“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.”

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