"Life is with such all beer and skittles. They are not difficult to please About their victuals."

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Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.59

Charles Stuart Calverley

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“The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement, but also knowing about light and waiting. Young as I am, I know now that everything is about to come. Jimmy will be the place for me to learn the real happiness. He will be my Joy School. My joy. Mine.”
“Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some of the experimental work which is not available to us from the armchair.”
“With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.”
“Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care and a balanced judgment, lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has, with grave danger and damage to his faith.”
“Everyoneâ€™s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.”
“Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.”
“I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
“When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.”

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