"Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion."

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Source : Amy Vanderbilt, Letitia Baldrige (1978). “The Amy Vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living”, Doubleday Books

Amy Vanderbilt

#Grace Quotes #Genius Quotes #Fool Quotes

“As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don't need society's standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth. We don't need to become just like men to be honored, and we don't need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lie not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.”
“The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.”
“Her eyes opened then. They were drowsy, slumberous, staring up at him with a hunger that was impossible to miss. â€œI felt you,â€ she whispered, a smile tilting her moist lips. â€œWatching me. Should I feel you watching me?â€ Was she asleep or awake? â€œOf course.â€ He found the growl building in his throat. â€œEvery time I look at you, baby, I touch you.”
“I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.”
“The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.”

Source : FaceBook post by John Jakes from Dec 22, 2014
“Every man's got to figure out how to get beat sometime.”
“He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.”
“The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.”

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