"The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

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“Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.”
“Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.”
“If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?”
“The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without distinction. By the same measure, why is there not an equal enthusiasm to distribute blame for violence engendered by some of the irreligious?”
“Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.”

Source : Gilbert Parker (2013). “The Money Master”, p.208, Lulu Press, Inc
“He's managed to make himself something highly unusual for a man at this stage of his career: unclassifiable. Unpredictable. Tom Jones is no joke”
“I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.16, Courier Corporation
“Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.”

Source : "King of bling". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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