"I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas."

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Source : Mary Mapes Dodge (1875). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.59

Mary Mapes Dodge

#Church Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Fine Quotes

“But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.”
“Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea?”
“To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do”
“Every guitar has a personality.”
“If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.”

Source : "Feats of memory anyone can do". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2012.
“Dating or finding someone is the last thing on my mind.”
“In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.”
“I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?”

Source : "Speak". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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