"Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed."

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Source : William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.42

William Shenstone

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“What do you think you should do if you're attacked by a bear? Play dead? No - that's a lie promoted by the bears.”
“The past three years have seen a threefold increase in the number of participants of the state guarantee system. It has already exceeded 21 percent, and the trend will continue. We need a national rather than a government program of state guarantees”
“At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these movies. In 'The Polar Express,' there's a kid that doesn't really believe, and that's the threat to Christmas. In 'Santa Claus: The Movie,' jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas.”
“Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.”
“But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.”
“Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.”
“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”
“(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring in so much food to feed you and me and the whole country and enough food to export to other places. The ironic thing and the tragic thing is that after they make this tremendous contribution, they don't have any money or any food left for themselves.”

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