"Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue."

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Source : James Hilton (1988). “Lost Horizon”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

James Hilton

#Stupid Quotes #Laziness Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice.... First, you make them happy by doing what they tell you. That's the main thing. Let them think they're in control. They love it. Then, if it turns out they were right, everything's cool. If it turns out they were wrong ... then you have the pleasure of basking in the glow of superiority.”

Source : "The Stake".
“Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.”
“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”

Source : Samuel Butler (1827). “The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose”, p.225
“All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.”
“I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a bird of the ages Triassic, With his antediluvian beak, And many a reptile Jurassic, And many a monster antique.”

Source : May Kendall (1887). “Dreams to Sell”
“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.”
“Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.”
“Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.”

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