"Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em."

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Source : Bryan Waller Procter (1820). “A Sicilian Story ; with Diego de Montilla and Other Poems”, p.135

Bryan Procter

#Dream Quotes #Winning Quotes #Ems Quotes

“I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.”
“What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.”
“I spend a lot of time with my characters.”
“If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it shall flash back on you the radiance of God. As you save, so shall you be saved.”
“The body is the substance of the stone.”
“Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe.”

Source : "Transcript: Bob Casey". www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.
“The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?”
“You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.”

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