"But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls."

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Source : Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company

Edwin Booth

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“Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.”
“How so? Briefly, apart from the gospel and outside of Christ, the law is my enemy and condemns me. Why? Because God is my enemy and condemns me. But with the gospel and in Christ, united to him by faith, the law is no longer my enemy but my friend. Why? Because now God is no longer my enemy but my friend, and the law, his willâ€”the law in its moral core, as reflective of his character and of concerns eternally inherent in his own person and so of what pleases himâ€”is now my friendly guide for life in fellowship with God.”
“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.”
“It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.”
“Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.”
“Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro,”
“Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.”
“It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days.”

Source : Kimberly Frost (2009). “Would-Be Witch”, p.97, Penguin

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