"In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people."

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Source : Joel Dorman Steele (1872). “Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry”, p.223

Joel Dorman Steele

#Nature Quotes #People Quotes #Use Quotes

“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.”
“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.”
“As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.
“The world exists for the sake of kindness.”
“It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.”
“If I could choose the perfect Dad There's no one I would rather Have Dad, than you Dad Coz you go further, Father Happy Birthday Father”
“Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.”
“So what about that key?" I asked. "I knew you'd be asking me about it sooner or later." He pulled the cord out from underneath his shirt and dangled the key in front of me. "What do you want for it?" I sneered. "Five dollars?" "I don't want money," he said with a wicked grin. "What does it go to?" "A kiss will unlock more than this key will," he whispered in my ear.”

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