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«What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books»
«There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted»
«One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun?which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...»
«The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.»
Author: Hugh Sidey | Keywords: hopeful, or so, prime of life
«It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.»
«Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.»
«We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.»
«I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.»
Author: Pierre Corneille (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: deserved, or so
«Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.»
«I will hold your hand but as long as all may, / Or so very little longer!»
Author: Robert Browning (Poet) | Keywords: or so

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