"A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell."

-- R. H. Tawney

#Riches Quotes #Wealth Quotes #Hell Quotes

“The great seal of truth is simplicity.”
“With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.”
“I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.”
“O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.”

Source : Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.165, Simon and Schuster
“I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.”
“When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.”

Source : "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1949.
“[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.”
“I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.”

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