Norman Douglas's Quote - Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity. – Henry Rollins

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Morning

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller

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Life

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Angels

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word. – Gail Hamilton

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Writing