The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLThe idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLI have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLLearn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLA man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLthe human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life’s sorrows.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLThere is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLThere is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLDo you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLWhen the desire ain’t on me I don’t need help. When it is on me I don’t want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn’t do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody’s.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLA country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLYou must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes … without stirring it up from the bottom. That’s where the bitter dregs are!
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLDogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLDefeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLBurning logs can carry on quite a conversation!
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULL[On religion:] Wasn’t it invented by man for a kind of solace? It’s as though he had said,
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLI’ll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,’ and then it ends by becoming a strait-jacket.
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