"If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you."

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Source : Lisa Kleypas (2012). “A Wallflower Christmas: Number 5 in series”, p.108, Hachette UK

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“Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.”

Source : Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”
“Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say " Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better than feeling.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 244, 1895.
“Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.”
“Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.”
“Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.”
“Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.”
“Hey Mantle, you win. You're the worst.”
“Thatâ€™s how you tell what a manâ€™s really made of. Itâ€™s one thing for a man to be big and brave and kill a spider. Any man could do that. Trailinâ€™ after a woman when sheâ€™s shopping for thongs and push-up bras is a whole other category of man. And then if you want to see how far you can go with it, you ask him to carry one of those little pink bags they give you.”

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