"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.”
“I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.”

Source : "Bill Nighy: 'I am not suddenly the greatest actor in the world'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2009.
“Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!”

Source : Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1892). “Poems”
“No, do not love me, it is better to give me death!”
“As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.”
“People always ask what I would have done if I weren't doing what I'm doing. And I say I'd [still] be in fashion or in beauty. It's such a dream come true now because I have the ability to go into home [goods] and accessories as well.”
“I will get married when I build a house in Banana Island”
“Intolerance lies at the core of evil. Not the intolerance that results from any threat or danger. But intolerance of another being who dares to exist. Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us, because every human being secretly desires the entire universe to himself. Our only way out is to learn compassion without cause. To care for each other simple because that 'other' exists.”

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