I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.

David Mitchell
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  1. Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people. - Roy T. Bennett

  2. Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue). - Jess C. Scott

  3. Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people. - Roy T. Bennett

  4. And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. - Ruskin Bond

  5. It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid... - Criss Jami

More Quotes By David Mitchell
  1. A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

  2. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

  3. I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

  4. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi...

  5. Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

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