"All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price."

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Source : Amin Maalouf (1994). “The Rock of Tanios”, George Braziller

Amin Maalouf

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“Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.”

Source : Joseph Addison, Mr. John Dryden, Richard Steele, William Shakespeare, Colley Cibber (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. V.”, p.21
“How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.”
“Take delight in the simplest things.”
“You cant change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.”
“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”

Source : Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.585, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
“Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.”
“I want my marriage to be like th Earth, full of life and revolving around the Son”
“After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.”

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