"Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a solid citizen, the embodiment of hard work and rugged individualism. You're no criminal. The criminal is the guy who comes up short, who gets caught, who fails to adopt a respectable cover."

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Source : Source: www.believermag.com

Luc Sante

#Hard Work Quotes #Guy Quotes #Criminals Quotes

“I personally guarantee that now that bear wouldn't get past Dover without being shot.”
“I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.”
“I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. Itâ€™s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.”
“As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.”
“Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.”
“A weak invention of the Enemy.”

Source : Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.53
“To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. If these little creatures knew how great a change awaited them, no doubt they would regret it; but would not all such sorrow be misplaced?”
“Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.”

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