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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. – Evelyn Waugh

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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh

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Prison
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If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… – Evelyn Waugh

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Summer
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What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. – Russian Proverb

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A stumble may prevent a fall. – English Proverb

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A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. – Lee Segall

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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. – Orison Swett Marden

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Nature is my medicine. – Sara Moss-Wolfe

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It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. – Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972

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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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