Let’s just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch. '
I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.
Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment
Regarding the idea of race,. . no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.
To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.
To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.
Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.
It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.
He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above.
Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.