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last updated: November 28, 2023

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
-- Bayard Taylor

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I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
-- Cesar Romero

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If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.
-- James Drummond Burns

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I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.
-- James Buchanan

Source : James Buchanan, James Buchanan Henry (1909). “The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence”

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“Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.”

Source : "Malcolm Gladwell on Joy, Gates and the Beatles and on stage" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2008.
“I'm glad you're here. We've had some...interesting developments." Leif groaned. "That's Yelena-speak for life-threatening danger.”
“It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.”
“Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.”
“If somebody's gonna stab me in the back, I wanna be there.”
“Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.”
“If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not Godâ€™s.”
“I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!”
“I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in.”
“If God changes your heart, be willing to change your plans”