"some people always have a touch of youth about them."

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Source : Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Family and a Fortune”, p.131, A&C Black

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#People Quotes #Age Quotes #Youth Quotes

“The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.”
“The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.”
“A friend in power is a friend lost.”

Source : The Education of Henry Adams ch. 7 (1907)
“The Earth is warming but physical evidence from around the world tells us that human-emitted carbon dioxide has played only a minor role in it. Instead, the mild warming seems to be part of a natural 1,500-year climate cycle (plus or minus 500 years) that goes back at least one million years.”

Source : Fred Singer, Fred S. Singer, Dennis Avery (2006). “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years”, p.9, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
“...even though you said yes to the wrong man, I hope that won't cause you to say no to the right one.”
“Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.”
“Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me.”

Source : "Special Pleading" by Sidney Lanier, 1875.
“That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.”

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