"If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words."

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Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.77

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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“God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.”
“Concepts of justice must have hands and feet...to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.”
“To everyone wanting a safe, untroubled, comfortable life free from danger, stay away from Jesus. The danger in our lives will always increase in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.”
“There were two good fellows I used to know. --How distant it all appears! We played together in football weather, And messed together for years: Now one of them's wed, and the other's dead So long that he's hardly missed Save by us, who messed with him years ago: But we're all in the old School List.”

Source : James Kenneth Stephen (1909). “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
“It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.”
“You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.”

Source : Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”
“I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.”

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