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“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
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“Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.”
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“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response”
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— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response”
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“Human life has always been lived on the edge of precipice. Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would have never begun. We are mistaken when we compare war with "normal life." Life has never been normal.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
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