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To survive the Canadian winter, one needs a body of brass, eyes of glass, and blood made of brandy.


Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce Lahontan

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LOUIS L'AMOUR Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish ...
RENITA D'SILVA What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.
CHRIS D'LACEY I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!
RAY D'INVERNO You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
CHRIS D'LACEY Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Som...
JEANNE D'ARC If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and reliev...
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL [A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first t...
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL [I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or,...
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL [I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, ...
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL Pay phones,
relics of an almost-vanished landscape,
always a touch of seediness and sadne...
BRIAN D'AMBROSIO One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and...
JEANNE D'ARC Alone, you're vastly outnumbered; but in the company of another, by some weird miracle of human math...
CHARLES D'AMBROSIO In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abor...
DINESH D'SOUZA ...on opening the incubator I experienced one of those rare moments of intense emotion which reward ...
FéLIX D'HERELLE C'è un vedere che è credere, perchè è sperare, ma sperare richiede di essere disposti a servire ...
ALESSANDRO D'AVENIA Wouldn't the world be a much better place if we didn't make it past the age of maybe 10? Think back ...
D'ANDRE LAMPKIN The author urges taking the pulse of the church outside our own neighborhood. More church attending ...
DINESH D'SOUZA If only people tried to connect with the heart the way they do with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram...
D'ANDRE LAMPKIN I have a theory that as human beings get older, chemicals are released into the brain to prepare us ...
KRIS D'AGOSTINO It's better to be late...then late
CARLSON D'SOUZA Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!
HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.
JOSEE D'AMORE The stony silence of death,
trapped by the original gravity of our sins,
and the perpetui...
BRIAN D'AMBROSIO In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the...
DINESH D'SOUZA Divisions in mankind are unnatural. They are man made.
D'ANDRE LAMPKIN