"The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing."

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Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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“The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and on all side round, may be perhaps be imagined but can not be described.”
“Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate.”

Source : Richard Clarke Cabot (1914). “What Men Live by: Work, Play, Love, Worship”
“I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.”
“People call us arrogant, but just because we know we are right, it doesn't make us arrogant.”
“The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.23
“When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.”
“Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.”
“Any kind of vision needs people.”

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