"Children are given us to discourage our better emotions."

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Source : Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.309, Delphi Classics

Hector Hugh Munro

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“Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit; they cohabit to marry. They do not seek freedom to rut so much as they seek the rut of wedlock.”

Source : Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books
“I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.”
“What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.”
“Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.”
“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.”
“The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!”

Source : "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book I, (Ch. 15), 1952.
“I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.”

Source : The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2005.
“A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.”

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