"Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked."

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Source : "Tools Of Speech". Book by Maturin M.ballou, 1886.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Matter Quotes #Ends Quotes #Pins Quotes

“Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin”
“Paralyze resistance with persistence.”
“There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.”
“To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.”

Source : Almanac (1941) p. 77
“Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.”

Source : Luís Fernando Veríssimo (2004). “Borges and the eternal orang-utans”, Vintage
“I donâ€™t feel less loved or less loving because Iâ€™m not married.”
“If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.”

Source : "60 SECONDS: Marcus Brigstocke". Interview with Paul Kevan, metro.co.uk. June 27, 2007.
“I don't really look around and say, 'I've made it.' I just look around and think how fortunate I am to work with the people I'm working with.”

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