"There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?"

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Source : Paul Bourget (1893). “Cosmopolis”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

Paul Bourget

#Better Life Quotes #Aids Quotes #Duty Quotes

“We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.”
“It's not because I like him. I'm just disappointed. Disappointed in love.”
“That's what life is all about: Let's have a party. Let's have it tonight.”
“However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.”
“I work hard. I like to practice. I like to win. I want to be the best.”
“There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.”
“A small town is automatically a world of pretense. Since everyone knows everyone else's business, it becomes the job of the populace to act as if they don't know what is going on instead of its being their job to try to find out.”

Source : Jeanine Basinger (2013). “A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960”, Knopf
“when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.”

Source : Martha Albrand (1950). “Wait for the Dawn”

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