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There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. read more
There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
I speak two languages, Body and English.
I speak two languages, Body and English.
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
[Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
[Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
And who in time knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores
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And who in time knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores
This gain of our best glory shall be sent,
T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident
May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean