"To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as dropping into the water off the concrete edge of the Fitzroy Baths."

-- Helen Garner

#Summer Quotes #Morning Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very detailed, insightful and balanced account of the events leading to the Mountain Meadow Massacre of 9/11, 1857.”
“At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.”
“We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.”
“In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.”
“The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.”
“Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....”
“Advertising does something important as a sector - culturally and especially economically”
“Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.”

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