John O’Hara Quotes: So who’s perfect … Washington had false…

So who's perfect ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.

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He just kind of ran so flat in the Oak Tree Derby that we gave him some time off. We were scratching our heads, pretty confident that he was better than that. Corey gave him a great, patient ride today.


Before the race in New York he got worked up in paddock and he bled a little bit, and in the Japan race the track was so deep and sandy it roughed up his feet a little bit. He's doing well now and back to his home track. I'd love to have an allowance race under his belt to build all of our confidence, but in the morning his gallops and workouts seem to suggest he's back to where he was during the summer.


I put my head down once and when I stood up, my fingers felt numb. I almost fell over a couple of times.


Allah desires to explain to you, and to guide you into the ways of those before you, and to turn to you (mercifully), and Allah is Knowing, Wise.


Allah, there is no god but He-- He will most certainly gather you together on the resurrection day, there is no doubt in it and who is more true in word than Allah What is the matter with you, then, that you have become two parties about the hypocrites,


Did He not find you an orphan and give you shelter And find you lost (i.e. unrecognized by men) and guide (them to you) And find you in want and make you to be free from want Therefore, as for the orphan, do not oppress (him).


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