"Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. If he esteemed virtue above all other things, neither the favors of fortune nor the advantages of position would change a man's face or heart."

-- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

#Heart Quotes #Men Quotes #Quality Quotes

“It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.”
“Get in the habit of never putting the phone next to your brain or body unless it's a true emergency.”

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“I don't vote. I don't do no voting.”
“When I was very young, I didn't really write my own material. I just memorized other peoples' jokes. Established comics, like Stanley Myron Handelman and people like that. And then, for every comic, you develop your own style after a while.”
“Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel up. Not yet. She didn't think she ever could.”
“I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.”
“War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.”
“If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.”

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