"No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense â€“ the only misfortune is to do it solemnly."

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Michel de Montaigne

#Nonsense Quotes #Misfortunes Quotes

“It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry; the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places.”
“A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.”
“Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.”

Source : Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company
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