"The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student."

-- Robert Aris Willmott

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“In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.”
“It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery.”

Source : Jean Hugard, Frederick Braué (2012). “Expert Card Technique”, p.573, Courier Corporation
“Some reviewed 'The Master' on their knees, and while I respected its distinctive discordancy - can a movie be at once feverish and glacial? - I was unmoved.”
“St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey.”
“I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.”
“And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.”
“In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.”
“Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.”

Source : George Saintsbury (1924). “A Last Scrap Book”

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