Barbara Holland Quotes
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Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring.
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War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it.
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Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.
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My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
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Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.
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By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.
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A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.