"No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at."

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Source : Maria Edgeworth (1832). “Tales of Fashionable Life: The absentee, ch. 6-17”, p.146

Maria Edgeworth

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“Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.”
“People are like, 'What do you mean you don't listen to 115 different types of music?'. You can't just listen to The Smiths anymore. But then there are plenty of people that do only listen to five bands and six albums and that's it. My playlists are massively varied. There's never a theme throughout, it's never like everything is based in funk or based in reggae or whatever. It's 210BPM gabber-style techno and 40BPM reggae in the same list and it's like, yeah, they work.”
“There's no solutions to prevent corruption because it's the same thing as putting soldiers in an occupation in a foreign territory - there's too much that's gonna go wrong. There's too much human behavior that's going to get in the way. So you're gonna have to start thinking about it in a different direction, and the different direction is: what is wrong with society?”

Source : "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The blessing of God enriches the soul for eternity while that given by the world enriches the body temporarily.”
“What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.”
“Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.”
“A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.”
“Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.”

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