"If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right."

-- Lyman Abbott

#Ambition Quotes #Mean Quotes #Golden Quotes

“We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.”
“I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.”
“Conventions, like clichÃ©s, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.”
“You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.”
“Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.”
“In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'”
“Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.”
“If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.”

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