"Ornaments were invented by modesty."

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Joseph Joubert

#Ornaments Quotes #Modesty Quotes

“Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so that public authorities may expand their efforts in the work of development? Is he prepared to pay more for imported goods, so that the foreign producer may make a fairer profit? Is he prepared to emigrate from his homeland if necessary and if he is young, in order to help the emerging nations?”
“So all you want is a kiss?" I asked. A little voice in my head said I was heading for one of those slippery slopes. I told the little voice to shut up. "Well, maybe more than one. But basically, yeah.”

Source : Jenna Black (2010). “Glimmerglass: A Faeriewalker Novel”, p.120, Macmillan
“A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.222, Wave Books
“As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.”
“A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.”
“He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.”
“As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.”
“From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.”

Source : "Renowned journalist throws the book at Scientology". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

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