"Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person."

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Lord Chesterfield

#Ugly Quotes #Flattery Quotes #Enough Quotes

“People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.”
“There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.”

Source : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. "An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 345, 1732.
“It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.”

Source : Gertrude Bell (2014). “The Letters of Gertrude Bell”, p.1761, eStar Books
“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
“I am very much against weapons in space.”
“I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm through accepting limits ''cause someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of Losing love I guess I've lost Well, if that's love It comes at much too high a cost!”

Source : David Coté, Joan Marcus, Stephen Schwartz (2005). “Wicked: the Grimmerie”, Hyperion Books
“Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.”

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