"The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already."

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Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.73

William Gilmore Simms

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“Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.”

Source : Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”
“Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.”
“I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.”
“Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.”
“Russians absolutely not trying to meddle with the election of Donald Trump. I discussed that with the president-elect. Those conversations never happened. I hear people saying it like it's a fact on television. That is just not only inaccurate and false, but it's dangerous and it does undermine our democracy.”
“My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.”
“Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Everybody is a story.”

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