"Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence."

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Source : John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.125, Taylor & Francis

John Wilmot

#Excellence Quotes #Taste Quotes #Faults Quotes

“I'll never be the sort of author who sells that many copies. You'll never see a book of mine being sold on a table at Costco, between the extra-large jorts and a barrel of salsa. And I wouldn't have it any other way. I'll be indie till I die.”
“I know that I cannot take responsibility for other people. We are all under the law of our own consciousness.”
“I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.”
“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
“The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.”

Source : "Memórias" by Nelson Rodrigues, Publicado por Edições Correio de Manhã, (p. 73), 1967.
“There's certainly an element of responsibility that goes with being on the cover of WWE 2K18, but I'm just stoked for it. I think it's awesome for our generation to have a guy on the cover who comes from the group of guys and girls on the road right now who are grinding it out every single day and night. I feel honored to have gotten the opportunity and that I was chosen to be that guy when it could have been anyone from Charlotte Flair to Sasha Banks to Roman Reigns.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.”
“If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 54, 1799.

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