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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.


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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.
JAMES HOPWOOD JEANS The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
UNKNOWN The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour. -Unknown.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A camel is a horse designed by committee.
SIR ALEC ISSIGONIS There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the wor...
SIR PETER MEDAWAR I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
SIR NATHAN ROTHSCHILD A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
SIR RICHARD STEELE I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore ...
SIR PETER HALL Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by makin...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Well languag'd Danyel.
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal car...
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave scho...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they lea...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
SIR RICHARD STEELE I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an except...
SIR RICHARD STEELE The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.
SIR RICHARD HULL The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests wi...
SIR ARTHUR HELPS Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. About Russia
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