"The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't."

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Source : Patricia Wentworth (1992). “The Ivory Dagger”, Perennial

Patricia Wentworth

#Kindness Quotes #Condolences Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.”
“Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'”
“My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.”
“If you want to change your art, change your habits.”
“I think because we're ourselves, we tend to think we're unique. 'I have problems that are just specific to me.' Then you connect with one of your parents and you realize, 'Oh yeah, we had all that stuff, too.' You're not that original. I mean, in a good way, because it makes you feel like you're connected and a part of the world and not an island.”
“Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.”
“The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.”

Source : Observer 20 August (1978)
“I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize that you could have done it better in the first place, that you could have found an architecture that would make it easier to transform and grow the code. And this is terribly seductive—you’re not just building a solution to a problem, you’re potentially building a beautiful solution, with ‘beautiful’ here being defined here by an aesthetics of present and future functionality. This can be a trap.”

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