"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."

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Judith Martin

#Honesty Quotes #Mean Quotes #Insulting Quotes

“When you've done the types of things I've done, it's easier not to reflect on yourself. When I start thinking about how it's affecting the families of the people, and my family and everything, it doesn't do me any good. It just gets me very upset.”
“We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.”
“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position.”
“All beautiful things must end. Otherwise they are not beautiful.”
“But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.”
“The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.”
“The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.”
“Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel weâ€™re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesnâ€™t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.”

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