"So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain."

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Source : sir Benjamin Thompson (count Rumford.) (1796). “Essays, political, economical and philosophical”, p.35

Benjamin Thompson

#Believe Quotes #Character Quotes #Men Quotes

“I think the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals abused its power all day long.”
“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
“You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.”
“We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.”
“All instruments sound fantastic in a church.”

Source : "Colin Meloy Interview Transcript". Interview with Luke Baumgarten, www.inlander.com. October 20, 2005.
“Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.”
“What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.”
“There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.”

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