"General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances."

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Source : Charlotte Mary Yonge (1873). “The Pillars of the House, Or Under Wode, Under Rode”, p.268

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#Dangerous Quotes #Application Quotes #Instance Quotes

“I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.”
“Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.”
“Fight, fight, fight and more fight. If you have that burning desire in you, if you're just one of those guys that does not like losing and you fight and you fight and you fight, that's what makes you a good wrestler.”
“I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.”
“Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible sense of inner peace, unselfconscious humility, an urge to communal cooperation, and heartfelt appreciation for the world around them.”

Source : Chellis Glendinning (2007). “My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization”
“Marriage isn't a carnival ride.”
“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.”

Source : "Charting the Candidates '72" by Ronald Van Doren, 1972.
“... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead...”

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