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I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.


George J. Mitchell


#back #decision #enjoyed #federal #federal judge

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.


Andrew Motion


#first #first time #gone #had #how

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#being #honey #insects #knowledge #lies

Poison." he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much." She's a treasure." Bram agreed, blithely ignoing the sarcasm. .... Then went a few dozen feet in silence, until they were out of eaarshor of the gaurd. She's a treasure." Poison mimicked, and Bram burst out laughing.


Chris Wooding


#laughing #poison #treasure #funny

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.


John Charles Polanyi


#experience #must #other #our #own

I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.


Nora Roberts


#gotten #i #know #number #online

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.


Walter Anderson


#good #like #listeners #precious #treasured

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.


George Sand


#cling #coin #condition #empty #enthusiasm

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.


Walter Scott


#centuries #contemporary #diary #document #dull

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.


Josef Skvorecky


#criticism #golden #literature #look #lovers






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