"It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves."

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Source : Robert Smith Surtees, Author of Mr. Sponge's sporting tour (1854). “Handley Cross: Or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt”, p.140

Robert Smith Surtees

#Speak Quotes #Praise Quotes #Dealer Quotes

“The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.”
“The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.”
“The excess of pleasure is pain”
“To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.”
“I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.”
“If you're outside the path of totality eclipse, if there's any way you can get into the path of totality for the eclipse, do it. Take the day off. Take the kids out of school. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for most people to see a total eclipse, and it is one of the grandest sights in all of nature. It's something you'll always remember, and you'll pass stories of it onto your grandchildren.”

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“I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.”

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