"Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON, even to drams, scruples and grains-nay, to the very fraction of a grain!-I wish there were infallible experiments to ascertain the quantum of brains each man possesses, and every man's integrity and candour:-This is a desideratum in science which is most of all wanted."

-- Robert Sutton Harrington

#Integrity Quotes #Moon Quotes #Men Quotes

“I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper's edges, the comfort, like an old shawl, of an oft-read story.”

Source : Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.226, Macmillan
“If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!”

Source : "Making Dr. King a Pitchman, Turning His Words Upside Down", www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2018.
“One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.”
“I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes.”
“I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.”
“I simply do not distinguish between work and play.”
“And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.”

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