"How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!"

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Petrarch

#Littles Quotes #Woe Quotes #Bliss Quotes

“Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.”
“Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasnâ€™t Adolf Hitlerâ€™s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted heâ€™d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.”
“I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.”
“The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.”
“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.”
“I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.”
“I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.”
“The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.”

Source : Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.142, Hachette UK

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