"Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight."

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Henry Wotton

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“But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.”
“Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.”
“There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The cafÃ© and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.6, Anza Publishing
“I don't consider myself a funny girl, but I do have a sense of humor because I don't take myself too seriously. Taking yourself too seriously, I think, is not right. Life is supposed to be funny. Because if you can laugh about yourself when you made a mistake or when you did something wrong, you can learn from it.”
“Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.”
“Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently â€“ rationing, by its proper name â€“ the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.”

Source : "Beyond Obamacare". www.nytimes.com. September 16, 2012.
“A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.”

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