"No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does."

-- Anita Brookner

#Truth Quotes #Doe Quotes #Blame Quotes

“O amazement of things-even the least particle!”
“You don't get into the mood to create â€“ it's discipline.”
“The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.”
“Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?”

Source : Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.435
“They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!”

Source : Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.44, Nellie Bly
“This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values”
“Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.”
“I cannot be what I am not.”

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