"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station."

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Joseph Addison

#Men Quotes #Vices Quotes #Bears Quotes

“There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.”
“A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.”
“The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time.”
“Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.”
“One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.”
“The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.”
“I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.”
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”

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