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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The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.
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Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.