"The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it."

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Source : "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That Old Birds are not to be Caught with Chaff", 1846.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#Gentleman Quotes #Age Quotes #World Quotes

“I really don't have that much interest in stardom.”
“To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.”
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”

Source : Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.76, Simon and Schuster
“We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.”
“We have to get awakened to the fact that in recent decades, great destruction has been caused to our moral values as a result of our children, parents and families, getting influenced by the chaotic conditions of modern times.”
“Gotta be more than grabbing nines to buck tin in, gotta be more than just to lust women, gotta be more than platinum Rolexes.”
“I love to sing, but it's just not fun anymore.”
“It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.”

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