"Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason."

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John Dryden

#Reason Quotes #Good Nature Quotes

“The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.”
“A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.”
“Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.”
“Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.”
“In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you go to the wrong college, you take the wrong job. Any of these things could really get you in trouble down the road. Or in your mind anyway. You're afraid to make any move, it's paralyzing.”
“If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.”

Source : Wallace Shawn (1985). “Aunt Dan and Lemon: A Play”, p.92, Grove Press
“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”

Source : Carl Little, Edward Hopper (1993). “Edward Hopper's New England”, p.8, Pomegranate
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

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