"We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

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“There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.”

Source : Source: www.roomthirteen.com
“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.”
“In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.”
“There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess”

Source : Mortimer Collins, Frank Kerslake (1880). “Attic Salt, Or, Epigrammatic Sayings, Healthful, Humorous and Wise: In Prose and Verse, Collected from the Works of Mortimer Collins”
“That was the trouble with lies: it was very important to remember them accurately when, generally, they were the things you most wanted to forget.”
“You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.”
“Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.”
“A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right”

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