"One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what is built upon Necessity; for unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians."

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Source : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark Q, pp. 207-208, 1732.

Bernard de Mandeville

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“We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”
“Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.”
“We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).”

Source : John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.295, Simon and Schuster
“North Carolina right now is going apeshit in a way no state ever has. Take every crazy, angry idea your drunk, right-wing uncle mumbles at Thanksgiving, turn it into a law, and thatâ€™s North Carolina today.”
“I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.”
“Fans want heroes. They're bored. They want a hero and want to follow that guy.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?”
“I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.”

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