"For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness."

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Source : Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

Thomas Bulfinch

#Allies Quotes #Literature Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?”
“You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.”
“How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?”
“I have nothing to complain about.”
“The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.”
“The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.”
“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.”

Source : "Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse". Book by Stephen Kotkin, p. 58, 2001.
“...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.”

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