"Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic."

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Judith Martin

#Order Quotes #Missing Quotes #Logic Quotes

“The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.”
“My first part-time job gave me the smell of earning money when I worked in a village chemist aged 14. I loved helping the pharmacist with prescriptions and on the shop floor, with its glamorous make-up aisle.”
“Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.”
“An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.”
“Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.”
“When you make a choice, you change the future.”
“Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.”
“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”

Source : Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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