"Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues."

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Source : Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”

Hugh Kingsmill

#Charity Quotes #May Quotes #Sin Quotes

“Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean â€œMore people diedâ€ donâ€™t say â€œMortality rose.”
“We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'”
“The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.”
“Most people don't relate to and can't generate concern for something they don't encounter personally or feel personally affected by. People have to have the palpable negatives in their lives dissected for them in ways that let them understand the root causes of unhealthy, unhappy conditions in their lives and then be allowed to really see and feel the positive alternatives.”
“She's super sexy everybody wanna know bout her and the one that everybody want, but no one's ever got her. Because the way she get it in all of the men, even the women all try, all try.”
“An eye for an eye makes us all blind.”
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”
“Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.”

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