“For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up... I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. (p52)”
― Lincoln: A Photobiography
― Lincoln: A Photobiography
“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
― The Invention of Hugo Cabret
― The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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