Inglês - Dia 54

"When they reached the landing-stage they found the young man in the polo jumper just taking his place in the boat. The Italian was already waiting. As the Nubian boatman cast the sail loose and they started, Poirot addressed a polite remark to the stranger."
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

"Life is thckly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly throught them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is the power to harm us." Voltaire

Word of the day:
Pusillanimous - (adjective) lacking courage or resolution, cowardly; faint-hearted; timid; proceeding from or indicating a cowardly spirit.

* ...in the intervals of their debauches of brutality they are oily and ingratiating, make favorites, offer pusillanimous apologies, protest human intentions, and allege absurd excuses for past outages.

Julian Hawthorne, The Subterranean Brotherhood, 1914

* The magnanimous man always praises himself in his heart, and so the pusillanimous man, on the contrary, always deems himself less than he is.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), translated by Elizabeth Price Sayer, The Banquet, 1887

Imaginary Place of the day:
Acaire - a vast forest in Poictesme surrounded by a low red wall. Within the forest, the ground rises to a mountain with three peaks. The two outer peaks are densely wooded but the middle one, the lowest, is bare.

James Branch Cabell, Figures of Earth. A Comedy of Appearances, New York, 1921; James Branch Cabell, The High Place. A Comedy of Disenchantment, New York, 1923