"Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Gratitude Quotes #Revenge Quotes #War Quotes

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“Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.”
“When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.”
“The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.139, Transaction Publishers
“Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.”
“If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.”
“Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.”

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