"My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce."

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Source : Charles Farrar Browne “The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 7”, Library of Alexandria

Charles Farrar Browne

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“Talking, texting or tweeting on your phone is the worst in any social situation. I went to a lunch during Paris Fashion Week, and I managed to steal a few moments with Lee Radziwill - who I think is perhaps the classiest woman alive - and she said this is her biggest pet peeve too. So I'm in good company.”

Source : "What This Party Pro Knows About Being a Fabulous Host (or Guest)". Interview with Adam Glassman, www.oprah.com. November 22, 2011.
“Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!”
“Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.”
“You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.”
“I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.”

Source : "Random Rules: Dave Willis". Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. March 31, 2008.
“When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?”

Source : Geri Larkin (2011). “Stumbling Toward Enlightenment”, p.7, Celestial Arts
“The Soviets held to the tradition of colonialism. They raped the country and killed many people. But they also built dams, electrical power plants, streets, and technical schools. They were communists and had the same vision for Afghanistan that Stalin and Lenin had for the Soviet Union: Progress is communism plus electrification. And today? Today Kabul gets its electrical power from Uzbekistan, Herat from Iran and Jalalabad from Pakistan.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.”

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