"I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it."

-- George Pickett

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“Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.”

Source : "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Fifth Day, Novel XLII (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.
“My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.”
“If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.”
“The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.”

Source : The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)
“What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not.”
“I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.”
“Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.”
“I wanted to be a broadcaster, sportscaster, or gameshow host from a very early age. I did my first broadcasting when I was 10 or 11 - into a tape recorder for my brother's football game, and for local events. A local radio station was experimenting with high school disc jockeys for rock and roll shifts - I applied - and got the job.”

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