"If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs."

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Source : Oliver Herford, Addison Mizner (1907). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”

Oliver Herford

#Rights Quotes #People Quotes #Society Quotes

“Zach. You can only call me Mr. Quinn when you're angry.”
“Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience to whom those people wrote.”
“She's wearin' heels, boy, but she's five foot seven, you got five inches and at least a hundred pounds on her," Max replied and I figured he was being a might bit generous with the weight but I wasn't going to correct him, mostly because he wasn't done talking. "And, lastly, she's a woman. You don't ever strike a woman in anger.”
“I never had a driving ambition to be a star.”
“I learned that if we set our mind to things, we can accomplish almost anything no matter what the circumstances are.”
“The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.”
“Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway! ... You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.”
“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.”

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