Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLLearn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLIf 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.
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 TURNBULLYou can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can’t ever rub it off him.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLDefeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLThere is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLThe idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLHave you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.
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 TURNBULLDogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
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 TURNBULLSunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLSpring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLBurning logs can carry on quite a conversation!
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 TURNBULLI think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.
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