"Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Annales, XXX. 9, 1922.

Ammianus Marcellinus

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“Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as "that one's more beautiful" or "this one's easier". You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing.”
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”

Source : Demian ch. 6 (1919)
“In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.”

Source : JAMES T. FARRELL (1938). “STUDS LONIGAN”
“If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.”
“I definitely talk about stuff I watch, but it's longer-form stuff.”

Source : Source: tv.avclub.com
“Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?”

Source : Claire Cook (2014). “Summer Blowout”, p.101, Marshbury Beach Books
“I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.”
“Over the weekend, Vladimir Putin scored eight goals during a hockey game. It happened just after he had the goalie executed.”

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