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The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.


Hume Cronyn

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The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the...
BLANCHE LINCOLN And yet methinks the older that one grows
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JOHN HUME If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless
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JOHN HUME We've had boilers getting overworked, filters plugged on furnaces, and a gas regulator that went bad...
RON HUME The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be ...
DAVID HUME Everything in the world is purchased by labor
DAVID HUME Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them
DAVID HUME Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if...
DAVID HUME It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past...
DAVID HUME I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of dif...
DAVID HUME