"All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings."

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Source : "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper; Edition by Philip Ayres (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999) Vol. 1, pp. 39-40; "Sensus Communis", 1711.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

#Understanding Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Rust Quotes

“Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.”

Source : "A Glastonbury Romance". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 849, March 6, 1932.
“I also have this incredible love for women.”
“The pictures I have been sent that display my father in places around the world such as the metro in Barcelona or downtown Los Angeles, I cannot understand the amount of publicity that has been given to my father in addition to the message that is spread because of this.”
“You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.”
“Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.”
“To play without passion is inexcusable!”
“Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.”
“The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.”

Source : "Thornburgh vs. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists". "Abortion and Protection of the Human Fetus: Legal Problems in a Cross-Cultural Perspective". Book by George F. Cole and Stanisław Frankowski, 1987.

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