"If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world."

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Source : Henry Arthur Jones (1925). “Representative Plays: Michael and his lost angel. The liars. Mrs. Dane's defence. The hypocrites”

Henry Arthur Jones

#Hate Quotes #Men Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.”
“Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.”
“I am excited to get on tour, if I'm speaking to the Phish fans. I can't wait.”
“[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.”

Source : Sir William Blackstone, John Fletcher Hargrave, George Sweet, Sir Richard Couch, William Newland Welsby (1852). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books : with an Analysis of the Work”, p.3
“When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you had to work 12 to 16 hours a day, knowing you had to be prepared, knowing you had to be ready, and it's very interesting because if you're an artist and you're creating, you can work very, very long hours but as you're putting out that love of creation, it's almost like you're charged by it, you're charged by the process of it.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“There is no influence like the influence of habit.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
“Its the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago.”
“It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected of you. But that's why I admire Bob Dylan's live performances - he's steadfast about mixing up the songs, not just sticking to his greatest hits, and reinterpreting them to the extent that you really can't recognize them until halfway through. It's like, I DARE you to sing along.”

Source : Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2010.

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