"There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other."

-- Laurence Sterne

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“As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nationâ€™s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.”
“Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.”
“Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “Married People: A Collection of Short Stories”, p.11, Overamstel Uitgevers
“"Exercise" is such a dirty word in my household that whenever I even think of it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.”
“And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.”
“In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...”
“The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“I was always cutting words. I even would write my jokes in my notebook. I still do this, almost like a poem.”

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