"Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work."

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Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

Lytton Strachey

#Giving Quotes #Age Quotes #Majority Quotes

“How many of you would put in front of your house a sign that says gun-free zone?”
“I'm an Ivy League-educated lawyer, so you'd think the world wouldn't mess with me, right? But I've been paid $10,000 less than a less qualified man in the same role. I've had men I've worked with grab my leg or rub my back in ways that have made me feel uncomfortable. I've been taken off projects because I was pregnant, even though my pregnancies have been both been healthy and didn't impact my work at all.”

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“Thereâ€™s something beautiful and very circular about passing by something that was important to the person you loved, or touching something that once meant something to him â€” that brings me some peace.”
“Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.”
“Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.”
“I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.”
“The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.”

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