"It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?"

--

Source : Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.212

Lady Hester Stanhope

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“Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love...”
“London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable”

Source : The Business Magazine, 2006.
“Oh it's the bingo playing wizard I love you guys so much, but not as much as my bird and my bingo!”
“The best is good enough for me.”
“Here's some advice. Stay alive.”
“God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself.”
“Let's pass a bill to cover the moon with yogurt that will cost $5 trillion today. And then let's pass a bill the next day to cancel that bill. We could save $5 trillion.”
“By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): 'men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.'”

Source : Gerolamo Cardano (2015). “The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability”, p.57, Courier Dover Publications

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