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Barbara Holland Quotes

Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us Picture Quote #1

Hospitality, or flinging wide the door to friends and wayfarers alike, was once important, back in a world without motels or safety nets, where a friend might find his castle burnt down or a wayfarer find bandits on his trail Picture Quote #1

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all Picture Quote #1

Moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It’s also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people Picture Quote #1

Life, after we’d had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports Picture Quote #1

War was... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it Picture Quote #1

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Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it Picture Quote #1

Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents Picture Quote #1

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog Picture Quote #1

A woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral Picture Quote #1

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Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us (Barbara Holland Quotes) Hospitality, or flinging wide the door to friends and wayfarers alike, was once important, back in a world without motels or safety nets, where a friend might find his castle burnt down or a wayfarer find bandits on his trail (Barbara Holland Quotes) Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all (Barbara Holland Quotes) Moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It’s also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people (Barbara Holland Quotes) Life, after we’d had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports (Barbara Holland Quotes) War was... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it (Barbara Holland Quotes) Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it (Barbara Holland Quotes) Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents (Barbara Holland Quotes) By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog (Barbara Holland Quotes) A woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral (Barbara Holland Quotes)

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