"Girl, when he gives you kisses twain, use one, and let the other stay; And hoard it, for moons die, red fades, and you may need a kissâ€”some day."

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Source : Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

Ridgely Torrence

#Girl Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Moon Quotes

“There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.”
“God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.”

Source : Ely Culbertson (1946). “Must We Fight Russia?”, Philadelphia ; Toronto : John C. Winston
“At about the age of seven â€¦ I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather: how lovely it was that the sun had come out. This despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria; we didnâ€™t have snow, we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to.”
“To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?”
“Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.”
“I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.”

Source : "Herman Koch Gets Meta In 'Dear Mr. M'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 28, 2016.
“Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?â€ If so, he says, â€œYou may be outscored but you will never lose.”

Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.207, Random House
“Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.”

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