Quote by Katharine Whitehorn
People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat i

People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you dont try to predict what. – Katharine Whitehorn

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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. – Katharine Whitehorn

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There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes. – Katharine Whitehorn

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The snow is sparkling like a million little suns. – Lama Willa Miller

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The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas…. – Charles Dickens

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Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life. – Terri Guillemets, “Evening walk in solitude,” 1989

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[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866

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