"You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you."

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Source : Howard Pyle (2015). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.7, First Avenue Editions

Howard Pyle

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“Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.”
“False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.”
“By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.”
“Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'”

Source : "Bobby Flay Talks Career, Passion, and Food Network Stardom". Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2011.
“Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.”
“My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.”
“Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.”
“The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.”

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