"Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting."

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Source : 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 21

Robert Smith Surtees

#Dirty Quotes #Hunting Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.”
“I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.”

Source : Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media
“Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.”
“A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others.”
“He's the game all right.”
“Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.”
“If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.”
“We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.”

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