"None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad."

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Source : Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.84

Benjamin Whichcote

#Opportunity Quotes #Be Good Quotes

“I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.”
“I certainly wouldn't go back and blame feminism, because all that feminism was really trying to do, which was huge, was to create a new set of expectations, a new set of opportunities for women, and they did.”

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“Lukashenko grabbed victory through force and lies.”
“I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.”
“It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.”
“You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'”
“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”
“By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.”

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