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Quotes by English Authors
"To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport."
"I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me."
"In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again."
"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
"The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind."
"The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms."
"Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so scared of life!"
"Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island, they had learnt how to deal with history, how to sling it carelessly on your back and stride out across the download with the breeze in your face."
"Such music", he said. "I'm not religious, but if I were I would say it was like a glimpse into the mind of God. Perhaps it was and i ought to be religious. I have to keep reminding myself that they didn't create the music, they only created the instrument which could read the score. And the score was life itself. And it's all up there"."
"Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands."
"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours."
"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."
"As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful."
"It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band."
"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."
"God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters."
"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos."
"It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music."
"You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God."
"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
"It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence."
"I always try to find something I admire about every character I play."
"It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port."
"I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book."
"I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge."
"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."
"Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another."
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