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She swallowed, watching as the servants and Harry and Bert trooped out of the room. Lad, apparently not the brightest dog in the world, sat down next to Mickey O’Connor and leaned against his leg. Mr. O’Connor looked at the dog, looked at the damp spot growing on his breeches where the dog was leaning, and sighed. “I find me life is not as quiet as it used to be afore ye came to me palace, Mrs. Hollingbrook.” Silence lifted her chin. “You’re a pirate, Mr. O’Connor. I cannot believe your life was ever very quiet.” He gave her an ironic look. “Aye, amazin’, isn’t it? Yet since yer arrival me servants no longer obey me and I return home to find me kitchen flooded.” He crossed to a cupboard and took down a china teapot, a tin of tea, and a teacup. “And me dog smells like a whorehouse.” Silence glanced guiltily at Lad. “The only soap we could find was rose scented. ↗


— Elizabeth Hoyt


#lad-the-dog #mickey #scandalous-desires #silence #life

I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given. ↗


— Michael Jones


#michael-jones #poetry #poetry-life #poetry-quotes #life

As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper. ↗


— Rachel Carson


#life #nature #life

I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven't gotten laid since Bush Senior was president... Do you know who studies sociology? People who would rather observe life than live it. ↗


— Erin McCarthy


#brains #guts #intelligence #sociology #life

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group. ↗


— Jim Barksdale


#group #i #i think #microsoft #operating

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them. ↗


— Ludwig von Mises


#economics #leisure #luxury #wealth #life

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world. ↗


— Katharine Hepburn


#life

If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone. ↗


— Mario Puzo


#life

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married. ↗


— Cathy Guisewite


#cathy #comic #comic strip #get #get married

Every chemical reaction has a transition state. ↗


— Derek Harold Richard Barton


#every #reaction #state #transition






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