#sip

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean. ↗

— William H. Seward

#claimed #constitution #domain #establishment #even

PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux. ↗

— Wallis Simpson

#girlfriends #gossip #habit #i #prince

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#insipid #rarest #seems #taste #vintage

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#elite #example #for example #i #just

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#appetites #automatic #bring #control #debating

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#gossip #help #knowing #make #more

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#change #coherent #definite #dissipation #evolution

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#author #become #books #could #down

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#gossip #inside #vatican

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic. ↗

— Patricia Meyer Spacks

#avoids #bears #even #faint #flavor