"Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself."

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Source : Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

Thomas Brooks

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“Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:â€“ Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your adversary. To be modest with a good game. To lose without ill-temper, and to win without bragging.”
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.”
“I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.”
“Tony McManus is the best Celtic guitarist in the world.”
“He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.”
“Animals may be our friends, but they won't pick you up at the airport.”
“He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.”
“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”

Source : The Lovely Bones ch. 23 (2002)

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