Today Quotes
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.A. J. Liebling
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.Edith Sitwell
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.Charles F. Kettering
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.Nicholas Chamfort
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.Nicholas Chamfort