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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about meditation, work

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about past

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Quote by Winston Churchill about smokers, drinking, rules, need, life

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Quote by Charles Dickens about drinking, army, love, life

A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

Quote by Francis Parkman about war, army

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

Quote by Franz Schubert about people, brain, man