"The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice--or he is not a gentleman."

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Source : Emily Post (1922). “Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”

Emily Post

#Knights Quotes #Justice Quotes #Champion Quotes

“One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.”
“I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation”
“Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.”
“It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.”
“Proceed to not smoke weed around the seed.”
“People will believe the crisis is over because they want to believe their world is safe.”

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing Trilogy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.”

Source : Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage
“It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.”

Source : Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.25, A&C Black

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