"A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman."

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Joseph Addison

#Coats Quotes #Fine Quotes #Higher Quotes

“The people in Cuba, they know what I stand for, and there's a lot of people in Cuba that stand for the same. But they can't say it.”
“We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.”
“Although most of us realize what we control and do not control, we live as though we do not really know, and in some cases we spend years focusing on things we cannot control.”
“The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change - or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them.”
“An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed.”
“The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth (1837). “Helen, etc”, p.52
“Romantic comedies, if done badly, can be catastrophic.”
“But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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