"Iâ€™m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows."

-- Steven Herrick

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“Society matters not so much. Words are everything.”

Source : Louis Auchincloss (2010). “A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth”, p.169, HMH
“The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.”

Source : "The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 2" by Theodor Mommsen, translated by W.P.Dickson, 1866.
“A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.”
“I was always a winner, but just didn't know it.”
“I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.”
“There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.”

Source : Cynthia Hand (2012). “Hallowed”, p.20, Egmont UK
“Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.”

Source : The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels (1635)
“Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, â€˜Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'”

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