"Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose."

-- Benjamin Franklin

#4th Of July Quotes #Noses Quotes #Wipe Quotes

“Kill me, or you are a murderer.”
“I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.”
“I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?”

Source : Ivy Compton-Burnett (2012). “Mother and Son”, p.111, A&C Black
“I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.”

Source : John Masefield, Donald Elwin Stanford (1984). “Selected poems”, Carcanet Press
“Where you now stand is a result of thoughts and feelings that you have offered before, but where you are going is a result of your perspective of where you now stand.”
“Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.”
“You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.”
“As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.”

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