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★★★ Of studies:
" Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. "
" Crafty men condemn studies ; simple men admire them; and wise men use them."
" Some books are to be tested, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
" Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
" To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection ; to make judgement wholly by their rules is the humour of scholar. "
" natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pronying by study. "
" distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. "
★★★ Gettysburg Address:
This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom _ and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow- this ground.
" It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. "
★★★ Lettet to Lord Chelmsford rejecting knighthood:
" We must strongly assert that it can claim no political expediency, far less moral justification. "
" the very least I can do for my country is to take all consequences upon myself in giving voice to the protest of millions of my countrymen, surprised into a dumb anguish of terror "
" The enormity of the measures taken by the Government in the Punjab for quelling some local disturbances has, with rude shock, revealed to our minds the helplessness of our position as British subjects in India. "
★★★ Shooting an Elephant:
" All I knew I was stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against the evil-sprited little beasts who tried to make my job impossible. "
" A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and to definte things. "
" And my whole life, every white man's life in the East, was one long struggle not to be laughed at. "
" The sole thought in my mind was that if anything went wrong those two thousands Burmans would see me pursued, caught, trampled on, and reduced to a grinning corpse. "
★★★ I have a dream:
" We cannot walk alone "
" Now is the time to rise from the dark and disolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice "
" I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. "
" With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope . "
★★★ Long walk to freedom:
" I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and wih equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achive. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die "
" To steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended."
Freedom is invisible ; the chains on anyone of my people......... were the chains on me.
" I have always known that its greatest wealth is its people, finer and truer that the purest diamonds "
" Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished. "
★★★ The luncheon:
" I was too young to have learned to say no to a woman. "
" But I have had my revenge at last "
" I never eat anything for luncheon ", " I never eat more than one thing for luncheon ".
" She gave me a bright and amicable flash of her white teeth".
★★★ The gift of the Magi:
" Please God, make him think I am still pretty."
" It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval.... She had been prepared for."
" Of all who give and receive gifts such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are Magi. "
★★★ Araby:
" Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door."
" Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile rommance. "
" My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. "
" Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and decided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."
★★★ The garden party:
" Stop the garden-party? My dear Laura, don't be so absurd. Of course we cannot do anything of the kind. Nobody expects us to. Don’t be so extravagant. "
" The lay a young man, fast asleep, sleeping so soundly, so deeply, that he was far, far away from them both. Oh, so remote, so peaceful. He was dreaming. "
" You won't bring a drunken workman back to life by being sentimental. "
★★★ Cat in the rain:
" The cat was trying to make herself so compact that she would not be dripped on. "
" The husband went on reading, lying propped up with the two pillows at the foot of the bed "
" The table was there, washed bright green in the rain, but the cat was gone. She was suddenly disappointed. "
" I wanted it so much, she said. ' I dont know why I wanted it so much. I wanted that poor kittey. It isn’t any fun to be a poor kitty out in the rain. "
★★★ Games at Twilight:
Having disappeared from the scene, he had disappeared from their minds, clean.
" He had wanted victory and triumph - not a funeral game. But he has been forgotten, left out and he would not join them now. The ignominy of being forgotten how could he face it? He felt his heart go heavy and ache inside him unbearably. "
" He lay down full length on the damp grass, crushing his face into it, no longer crying, silenced by a terrible sense of his insignificance. "
★★★★ To err is human.