"Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended."

-- John Dryden

#Vices Quotes #Kind Quotes #Satire Quotes

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
“The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law.”
“I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.”
“It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.”
“For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.208, Penguin
“We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.”
“Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.”
“So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.”

Source : William Blackstone (2016). “The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I: Of the Rights of Persons”, p.206, Oxford University Press

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