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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.


John Millington Synge


#canoe #canvas #civilisation #exquisite #find

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.


John Millington Synge


#agile #animal #boot #europe #general

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.


Wislawa Szymborska


#easier #imperfection #served #small #tolerate

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.


Wislawa Szymborska


#element #every #just #preserved #reversed

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.


Tacitus


#away #deserved #die #gradually #irritated

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.


Tacitus


#deserved #may #reproach #resentment #show

Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.


Jim Talent


#business #business world #capacity #effective #ever

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.


Robert Adams


#evocative #most #observed #probably #television

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.


Honore de Balzac


#during #especially #fools #give #idiots

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.


Paul Cezanne


#coming #day #freshly #observed #off






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