"But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast."

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Source : George Saintsbury (1922). “A Scrap Book”

George Saintsbury

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“You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.”
“If you work hard, good things will happen. I will never be in a situation where if I fail I can look back and say, 'If I'd only worked harder.'”
“Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the white area of South Africa and the destiny of South Africa depends on this essential point. If the principle of permanent residence for the black man in the area of the white is accepted then it is the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it in this country.”

Source : The Guardian, February 7, 2006.
“Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.”
“It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.”
“I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.”
“The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.”

Source : Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”

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