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Christmas thoughts

Christmas Thoughts, reflections, ideas, various opinions and some quotes on Christmas by the World of English and good will English-culture blog I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come …

Sixty great Christmas quotes

60 sixty great Christmas quotes and aphorisms by famous authors selected by Carl William Brown for the World of English blog, that is English-culture.com I wish you a Merry Christmas sparkle with …

Quotes on America

Quotes and aphorisms on America Quotes on America, aphorisms and quotations on the United States of America and the American people. The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a …

On Christmas

On Christmas an essay by G. K. Chesterton from All Things Considered, London 1908, plus some links to other posts about Christmas Festival, markets and stories What life and death may be …

Aphorisms on Love

Aphorisms on love. Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) You can give without loving, but you cannot love …

Quotes and aphorisms about England

Quotes and aphorisms about England, collection of great quotes, famous quotations and aphorisms about England by the World of English and english-culture.com O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body …

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

Quotes and aphorisms on love

Italy in brief

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One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown