William Bolitho Quotes

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• You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
• Adventure must start with running away from home.
• Dare, will, keep silence.
• It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.
• Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull,…
• The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit…
• A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living…
• Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social
• The mere idea of marriage, asa strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim…
• The mere idea of marriage, asa strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim…
• The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is the hostility of God and…

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