#read

In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#appeared #cholera #down #end #fearful

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. ↗

— Tacitus

#appreciated #best #character #develop #most

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#avoid #been #did #experience #had

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#claim #claimed #does #evolutionary #founder

I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#amateur #because #fighting #fights #fought

If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#condom #country #only #safe #said

I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#connect #i #i think #keeps #line

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting. ↗

— John D. Long

#cooper #find #history #i #i am

My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before. ↗

— Richard Virenque

#ago #already #around #been #before

But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#air #air force #already #army #been