"We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are."

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Nicolas Malebranche

#Respect Quotes #Merit Quotes #Matter Quotes

“There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.”
“While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (1911). “The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid”
“I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.”
“I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.”
“California, the department store state.”
“Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.”
“Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.”
“Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.”

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