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Famous quotes containing the words bernard, early and/or life:

    “Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “As I went forth early on a still and frosty morning, the trees looked like airy creatures of darkness caught napping; on this side huddled together, with their gray hairs streaming, in a secluded valley which the sun had not penetrated; on that, hurrying off in Indian file along some watercourse, while the shrubs and grasses, like elves and fairies of the night, sought to hide their diminished heads in the snow.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)