"Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save."

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Source : John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.20

John Gay

#Love Quotes #Bravery Quotes #Coward Quotes

“I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.”
“Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.”
“Everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want.”
“When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.”

Source : Title of song (1977)
“Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?”
“I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.”
“I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.”
“Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them. ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals.”

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