"Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back."

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Source : Charles Kingsley (1873). “Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.”, p.143

Charles Kingsley

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“It has to be an actress like Marion Cotillard [in Allied] because there are so many levels to it. It's set in the Second World War, when lots of people were doing things that, outside of a war, you wouldn't do, like killing and dropping bombs. She's doing things that one wouldn't approve of, but it's war.”
“Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling”
“We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.”
“I've always been brought up to stand on my own two feet and not rely too heavily on everyone else around me.”
“Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.”

Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8
“Every woman should have a purse of her own.”
“Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism exhorts him to do so in the name of his practical attributes. Formerly man was divine because he had been able to acquire the concept of justice, the idea of law, the sense of God; today he is divine because he has been able to create equipment which makes him the master of matter.”

Source : Julien Benda, Roger Kimball (2017). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.57, Routledge
“Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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