"The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure."

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Source : Alice Morse Earle (2016). “Stage-coach and Tavern Days”, p.46, Library of Alexandria

Alice Morse Earle

#Men Quotes #Cheerful Quotes #May Quotes

“I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.”
“The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.”
“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”
“The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.”
“you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!”
“My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.”
“Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.”

Source : Jhumpa Lahiri (2013). “The Lowland”, p.237, A&C Black
“I manage to hide in my movies.”

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