"People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them."

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Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

Augustus William Hare

#Wise Quotes #People Quotes #Wise Words Quotes

“Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.”
“As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.”
“There is a place called â€˜heavenâ€™ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.”
“Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not â€œsobrietyâ€ and meetings.”
“The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.”
“Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.”
“The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title”
“To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.”

Source : John Stuart Mill (1866). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.487

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