"We love what we should scorn if we were wiser."

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Source : Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead

Marie de France

#Should Quotes #Wiser Quotes #Scorn Quotes

“I'll spend more time getting dressedÂ than I spent at the actual event.”
“If you can fit in the suit, you've got the job.”
“When we realize that the strength of the Infinite is our strength and that the strength of the Infinite is limitless, we must come to the conclusion that we are capable of doing anything that the living of a great life may demand.”
“Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'”
“France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)”

Source : Les Regrets Sonnet 9 (1558)
“Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.”
“School was not a place I enjoyed.”
“Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.”

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