Odell Shepard quotes
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“One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.”
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“There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.”
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“For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.”
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“The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.”
-- Odell ShepardSource : Odell Shepard (1930). “The lore of the unicorn”, Outlet
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“If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.”
-- Odell ShepardSource : Odell Shepard (1930). “The Lore of the Unicorn”, p.92, Courier Corporation
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“There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn -- noble, chaste, fierce yet beneficent, altruistic though solitary, strangely beautiful -- is the clearest exception of all. The unicorn was not conceived in fear. Our early sense of Nature's majestry and mysetery is revealed in him.”
-- Odell ShepardSource : "The lore of the unicorn".
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“It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.”
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“I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.”
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“I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!”
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“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”
Source : Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.135, Penguin
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Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.87, Penguin
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Source : Abraham Cahan (1917). “The Rise of David Levinsky: A Novel”
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