“The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it.”
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“If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. ”
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“Flora had also learned the degraded art of 'tasting' unread books, and now, whenever her skimming eye lit on a phrase about heavy shapes, or sweat, or howls or bedposts, she just put the book back on the shelf, unread.”
― Cold Comfort Farm
― Cold Comfort Farm
“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
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“The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.”
― Patience
― Patience
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