"Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme."

-- James Boswell

#Men Quotes #Class Quotes #Skills Quotes

“I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.”
“The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.”

Source : "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.
“That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.”

Source : Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1973). “Agnes Martin: exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”
“The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.”
“Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.”

Source : Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “The refusal; The provoked husband; Love in a riddle; Perolla and Izadora; Rival queans”, p.238
“it is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them ...”
“May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.”
“MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended -- including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.”

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