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Quotes by Robert Quillen

“As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer”

“If you count all your assets, you always show a profit”

“If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.”

“Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.”

“If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.”

“Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.”

“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

You arent really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.