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1 " When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother. "
― Andrew Sean Greer
2 " No wolf falters before the bite, so strike.No hawk wavers before the dive, so swing.No sun pauses before the set, just strike.No rain delays before the fall, just swing. "
― Shannon Hale , Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
3 " They ordered punch. They drank it. It was hot rum punch. The pen falters when it attempts to treat of the excellence thereof; the sober vocabulary, the sparse epithet of this narrative, are inadequate to the task; and pompous term, jewelled, exotic phrases rise to the excited fancy. It warmed the blood and cleared the head; it filled the soul with well-being; it disposed the mind at once to utter wit, and to appreciate the wit of others; it had the vagueness of music and the precision of mathematics. Only one of its qualities was comparable to anything else; it had the warmth of a good heart; but its taste, its smell, its feel, were not to be described in words. "
― W. Somerset Maugham
4 " But if America falters in greatness and purpose, than Americans are nothing but the offscourings and hungry of other lands. "
― Theodore H. White , The Making of the President 1960
