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Nature created man for beauty and perfection. Man destroyed nature for his beauty and perfection.


S. Pranav Suryadev

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PEARL S. BUCK We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. MERWIN Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. MERWIN Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the wh...
W. S. MERWIN I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execu...
ULYSSES S. GRANT I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only ...
ULYSSES S. GRANT If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
ULYSSES S. GRANT No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your w...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
ULYSSES S. GRANT Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, a...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in t...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Let us have peace.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
ULYSSES S. GRANT If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
ULYSSES S. GRANT I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
ULYSSES S. GRANT My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
ULYSSES S. GRANT How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. PRITCHETT Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. PRITCHETT If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. NAIPAUL The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ...
V. S. NAIPAUL The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V. S. NAIPAUL I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
V. S. NAIPAUL One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people&#...
V. S. NAIPAUL Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
V. S. NAIPAUL It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situatio...
V. S. NAIPAUL In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that i...
V. S. NAIPAUL The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishi...
V. S. NAIPAUL The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did...
V. S. NAIPAUL It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral h...
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