"The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty."

-- Nassau William Senior

#Punishment Quotes #Poverty Quotes #May Quotes

“Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.”

Source : Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.14, Anchor
“For the gentle werelibrarian, who's strictly vegetarian, there's nothing like Tofillager the MEATLESS TOFU VILLAGER”
“The pen isnâ€™t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.”
“I guess it's going to have to hurt, I guess I'm going to have to cry, And let go of some things I've loved to get to the other side I guess it's going to break me down, Like fallin when you try to fly, Sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye”
“Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.”
“Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.”

Source : Julius Lester (2005). “The Autobiography of God: A Novel”, p.219, Macmillan
“I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.”
“Without supplies no army is brave.”

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