"There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding."

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Source : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.179

StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski

#Observation Quotes #Politeness Quotes

“There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.”
“My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.”
“I am close - too close - with my family.”
“Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.”
“Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.”

Source : William D. Nordhaus, Joseph Boyer (2003). “Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming”, p.98, MIT Press
“It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.”
“The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.”
“Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.”

Source : Poems, 'Tobacco'

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