"Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience."

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Source : Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

Christina Stead

#Men Quotes #Gentleman Quotes

“I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.”
“God has set popes over kings and kingdoms.”
“The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.”
“A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.”
“The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; & in addition to the evil of calumniating good men, & giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth & of reputation. The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.”

Source : "Letters".
“People have always been animals when it comes to sex. But since the Internet, it's become really out of control, in my opinion.”
“I'm going to cure RM." Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know how things are: Life gets so busy, and saving the human race is such an inconvenience.”

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