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Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high
position.
[Lat., Asperius nihil est humil read more
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high
position.
[Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.]
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for read more
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that read more
It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same.
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
[Lat., read more
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
[Lat., Nihil est aptius delectationem lectoris quam temporum
varietates fortunaeque vicissitudines.]
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
When you are through changing, you are through.
When you are through changing, you are through.
And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.