A 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 TURNBULLThere is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
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[On religion:] Wasn’t it invented by man for a kind of solace? It’s as though he had said,
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Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation!
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Do 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?
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Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
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You 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!
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There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
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Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics.
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Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
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When 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.
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Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.
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Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.
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The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
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I 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.
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If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he’s the hell of a diplomat.
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There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends.
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