"Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it."

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Source : Kin Hubbard, David S. Hawes (1995). “The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings”, p.28, Indiana University Press

Kin Hubbard

#Hurt Quotes #Flattery Quotes

“To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.”

Source : David Weinberger (2007). “Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder”, p.216, Macmillan
“There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.23
“I'd always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about fifteen in Scotland, in Edinburgh. There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham's sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been. Fantastic guitar player. And he's had a strong influence on me all the way through.”
“When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.”
“If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.”
“I will continue to pursue my music and live my life with my family.”
“Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.”
“Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Use is a dirty word only when theres an imbalance in the relationship.”

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