Ernest Bramah Quotes
Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward.
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.
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The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.
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O, had I but followed the arts!
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
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A man's world, but a white man's planet.
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Only 3 percent of people in the DRC use condoms.
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They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.
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This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
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This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?
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What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.
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Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.
