"Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness."

-- Henry Parry Liddon

#Church Quotes #Matter Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.”
“If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.”
“The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.”
“When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.”
“I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.”
“No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.”

Source : Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.70, 1st World Publishing
“Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.”
“You're not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else's happiness. You're responsible for your own HAPPINESS.”

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