"So, in our wisdom and fair justice we go on "Giving to dust that is a little gilt, More laud than gold e'er dusted;" proclaiming the merits of the bad wine, and making it, by every token, as enticing as we can; and blessing our stars that the good will be found out by its flavor "without our stir." As it is inestimable, we seek not to win esteem for it; as it is beyond all praise, we bestow no praises upon it."

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Source : "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Good Wine Needs No Bush", 1846.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#Stars Quotes #Wine Quotes #Winning Quotes

“I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for an enormous red pen with a wide felt tip. "Stand here and we'll see how you've done," she said, which is sort of like a dentist handing you a mirror and saying, "Sit here and watch while I drill a hole in your tooth.”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Aug 13, 2011
“I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.”
“Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.”
“Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling.”
“Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.”
“The multitude of people fail because they talk failure.”
“The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.”

Source : René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.2, Rutgers University Press

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