"Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of."

-- Blaise Pascal

#Sacrifice Quotes #Pride Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I never read a book if I'm auditioning for a film based on it. I like to stick to the script only because that's exactly what I have to play.”
“Periodontal bacteria can easily slip into the bloodstream and cause infection elsewhere in the body.”
“A good sailor knows everything is always changing.”

Source : Luanne Rice (2011). “The Silver Boat: A Novel”, p.184, Penguin
“I work twice as hard as everybody else.”
“I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.”
“I wish to emphasize that there are no secrets to golf.”
“February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1853). “Pretty Lessons in Verse, for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme”, p.9
“When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy”

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