"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief."

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Source : John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (2010). “Modern English Drama”, p.116, Cosimo, Inc.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Smile Quotes #Plant Quotes #Jest Quotes

“You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.”
“Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.”
“After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!”
“Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.”

Source : Umberto Saba (1998). “Songbook: Selected Poems from the Canzoniere”
“Our body is a small universe; to regulate emotions and feelings is a way of harmonization.”
“The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.”
“The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.”

Source : Irving Fisher (2007). “The Nature of Capital and Income”, p.202, Cosimo, Inc.
“not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?”

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