Today Quotes
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798
Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.Jane Austen, Emma
What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.Sydney Smith
And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.Old Russian saying
[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.Voltaire, Candide
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.George Eliot
Loneliness is a strange gift.E. B. White
From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.Immanuel Kant
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey