"It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our selves; but if they would have us laugh at them, they must fall short of us in those Respects which stir up this Passion."

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Joseph Addison

#Fall Quotes #Passion Quotes #Character Quotes

“I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.”
“Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early modern and modern history, they have had more contact with more parts of the world than almost any other nation - it is just that this contact has regularly taken the form of aggressive military and commercial enterprise.”

Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.8, Yale University Press
“Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.”
“I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.”
“I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Copying is about reverse-engineering.”
“Greatest misconception about We aren't democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we're actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn't be writing.”
“His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't seem at all surprising that he should be able to pull things from his dreams. In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.”

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