"I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little."

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Source : William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.107

William Shenstone

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“I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.”
“The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.”
“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
“Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.”
“The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?”
“There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I.”
“Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.”

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“Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a "free" man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual.”

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