"A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe."

-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

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“Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.”
“When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.”

Source : "Tulipe". Book by Romain Gary, 1946.
“A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.”
“Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.”

Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.”

Source : Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin
“A good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.”

Source : Source: coupdemainmagazine.com
“I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.”
“In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.”

Source : "Kiran Desai on the Costs Of Literary Celebrity". Interview with Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. April 21, 2007.

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