"Vices are simply overworked virtues ..."

-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

#Vices Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Shortcomings Quotes

“I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.”
“There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.”
“I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.”
“It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.”
“One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.”
“The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.”

Source : Ryan Blair (2011). “Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur”, p.41, Penguin
“Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.”
“The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.”

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