"Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School."

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Source : Harry Graham (2016). “Perverted Proverbs: A Manual of Immorals for the Many”, p.9, The Floating Press

Harry Graham

#School Quotes #Sunday Quotes #Long Quotes

“Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that p." That's close to self-contradictory, like Moore's paradox: "p, but I don't believe that p".”
“In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.”
“You can be the lead in your own life.”

Source : "Kerry Washington: The Gladiator" by Jason Sheeler, www.glamour.com. October 30, 2013.
“Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.”

Source : "Language and Identity: An introduction". Book by John Edwards, 2009.
“Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.”
“You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.”
“Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.”
“I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.”

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