"If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother."

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Victor Hugo

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“I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.”
“No one hates war like a soldier hates war.”

Source : "A modern major general" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2002.
“Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.”
“Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?”

Source : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.17, Booklassic
“We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.”
“Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.”
“The big story is Bruce Jenner. In last week's interview, Jenner said he's a woman who is transitioning his body from male to female, and he's also a conservative Republican. Bruce said he looks forward to bashing Obamacare as soon as he finishes using it.”
“The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.”

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