"So his life has flowed From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them."

-- Thomas Noon Talfourd

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“I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.”
“We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after a meal. There were many hardships to our type of life and we took these small comforts as they came; I found they added up to something decent enough to carry on”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.12, Granta Books
“His aster-blue eyes shown out from a face blackened by bruises and soot, his fair hair glittering in the firelight. Dressed all in black, silhouetted against flame, he looked rather like a demon, raised from the dead, trading for souls on the other side.”
“Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.”

Source : "Caring about clothes" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. September 25, 2014.
“Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?”
“People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.”
“I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers.”
“Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.”

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