"The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness."

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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

#Chiefs Quotes #Politeness Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“I'm not chic, I could never be chic.”
“Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!”
“Whiskey don't make liars it just makes fools.”

Source : Song: Too Long in the Wasteland
“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. Weâ€™re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
“As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.”
“There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.”
“I canâ€™t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.”
“If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.”

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