"People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly."

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Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.262

Isabel Burton

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“It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up of his collection of books almost invariably follows; the building up of a good library, the work of a lifetime, has been so much labour lost, so far as future generations are concerned. Talent, yes, and genius too, are displayed not only in writing books but also in buying them, and it is a pity that the ruthless hammer of the auctioneer should render so much energy and skill fruitless.”

Source : Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (1898). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)”
“Attachment is the strongest block to realization.”
“Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.”

Source : 'On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake'
“I wear sunglasses because of the glare of spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold.”
“Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.”
“Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.”
“Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more.”

Source : James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”
“I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.”

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