"Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters, Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan; The earth shall be his, and all her laughing daughters. Happy the man."

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Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1920). “The Junk-man, and Other Poems”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page

Richard Le Gallienne

#Daughter Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Brother Quotes

“A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.”
“In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.”

Source : Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor
“I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.”
“It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.”
“You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.”
“In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in todayâ€™s dynamic, lean economy, itâ€™s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.”
“A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.”
“The world is changing so fast that the future goes past soon as the present.”

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