"people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous."

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Source : Mary Jane Holmes (1871). “The English Orphans; Or, A Home in the New World”, p.81

Mary Jane Holmes

#People Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes #Language Quotes

“I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.”
“Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.”
“Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark.”
“I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry.”
“You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station.”
“All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.”
“One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.”
“Relationships is not a game of amateurs is what people say..But they begin to foster between amateurs and become a reason to make them matured grown-ups!”

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