"Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you"

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Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.37, Penguin

Amor Towles

#World Quotes #Proud Quotes #Intention Quotes

“The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph. (1914)”
“On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.”
“Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.”
“I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.”
“I love the way men smell. I love the way they taste, their texture, the way they're built.”
“Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.”
“In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.”
“The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.”

Source : An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation ch. 17 (1789)

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