"We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?"

-- Thomas F. Wilson

#Intelligent Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Vanity Quotes

“O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.”

Source : Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.24
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“The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.”
“This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me”
“There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.”
“Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.”
“Before you can express love, you must find love. You must know love within yourself before you can express it. You must love yourself before you can give it to another.”
“Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.”

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