"Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable."

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Source : "Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 57, 1780.

Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Persons Quotes

“A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.”
“We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.”
“They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.”
“For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.”
“I am the type of guy that always looks into the future. But, of course, you never completely forget a javelin in your shoulder.”
“I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.”
“I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they know that eighty percent of them are not going to succeed more than to just keep going and why if they are not why do they not keep on being interested in the things that interested them when they were college men and why American men different from English men do not get more interesting as they get older.”

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