"But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties."

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Source : Donald Grant Mitchell (1851). “Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart”, p.135

Donald Grant Mitchell

#Mean Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.”
“It is convenient for Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair to say the rise of the Islamic State has nothing to do with the Iraq War because that takes the culpability off their shoulders. The Islamic State is a product of the Iraq War. It took about a 100 years to build the Iraqi state, and the Americans and the British destroyed it in an afternoon.”
“Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.”
“I really hate those Internet freaks who take each thirty minute bundle of joy and turn it into a cult game of Where's Wally.”
“Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.”
“I wanted to be his dear, his darling.”
“The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.”
“The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.”

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