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06 March 2012

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"I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something."

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

"If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians."

~ H.P. Lovecraft

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

~ Charles Dickens

"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."

~ Edith Sitwell

"I should never have made my success in life if I had been shy of taking pains, or if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken exactly the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest."

~ Charles Dickens

"While Fate tramples on things of beauty, the indignant human heart shall utter them."

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"It doesn't matter what happens to a man but it does matter how he takes it. That's the true spirit of an Edwardian gentleman."

~ Herbert Johnson

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power ~ the gentleman."

~ Ralph Waldo Emmerson

"My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention..."

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

~ Charles Dickens

"I must ask anyone entering the house never to contradict me or disturb my peace in any way, as it interferes with the functioning of my gastric juices and prevents my sleeping at night."

~ Sir George Sitwell

"I love walking in the rain because no one knows I'm crying."

~ Charlie Chaplin

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"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe." ~ John Walter Wayland

Whenever I pick up my tobacco-pipe, stuffed with good tobacco for pleasure and pastime, it gives me a sad impression - and leads to the conclusion that I resemble it in many ways. The pipe was made from clay and earth and so was I. One day I will be earth again - it often falls from the hand and breaks before you know, my destiny is the same. The pipe is usually not colored; it remains white. So therefore, one day when I am dying my body will turn pale. Once buried it becomes black, just like a pipe that has been used for a long time. When the pipe is lit, one sees the smoke disappear instantly in the free air, leaving nothing but ashes behind. The glory of all mankind is consumed and the body turns to dust. So often it happens while smoking, that the stuffer is not handy, and instead the finger is used, then I wonder when I burn myself, if the ashes make such pain how hot will it be in Hades? Since such is the case, from my tobacco I can always erect enlightening thoughts. Therefore, in comfort I smoke on land, at sea and at home my little pipe, with devotion. ~ Johann Sebastian Bach

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