"Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get."

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Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.11

John Godfrey Saxe

#Care Quotes #Pay Quotes #Mortgage Quotes

“I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.”
“I picture success and winning. The body has a physical response to mental images of winning.”
“From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.”
“Kindness comes with no price.”
“I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.”
“I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.”
“Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.”

Source : Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.934, Pan Macmillan
“The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.”

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