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It’s the little victories that provide men the strength to keep moving.
What a delight it must be for the prim and proper; how thrilling to adventure into the dangerous dark streets where secrets lacked the legs to exit into the light of day.
Real wealth is not measured in the weight of useless yellow metal, but by the hearts of those that love you.”
The nicest gown in the world couldn’t help me debate gentlemen and ladies who judge a person by the whiteness of their skin.
“Nothing lives forever except love and hate,”
He’s good at what he does. Hard worker, smart fellow. Not certain he has a soul, but no one’s perfect.”
Get a weapon, my good man. This is war! We must band together to slay the foul wretch that threatens the world or die trying.” “Which wretch is that, Estelle?” Albert asked. “Respectability, of course. He and his henchmen: Priggishness and Gentility and their sidekicks: Manner and Decorum.
“I believe that what the lady is saying,” Auberon ventured, “is that it might be wise to withhold judgment on a whole nation of people and instead stick with evaluating the person in front of you based on their own merits and not the track record of hearsay.”
Wars never achieve the goals that start them, but they do make living with the prior problems more palatable by comparison.”
That was the problem with trust: shattering it was easy, reassembling it wasn’t.
“Men waste fortunes to climb a single mountain, Royce. It may be hard to understand, but sometimes the act itself is the reward. I would even go so far as to say that it is the best compensation. For after spending whatever money your work provides, you have nothing to show. But the man who finds satisfaction in the achievement, he will keep his treasure forever. No one can take it away—no thief can steal a memory or erase an accomplishment.
One selfless act leads to another until a chaos of kindness overwhelms the world.”
Smart means you know lots of stuff; wise is understanding what to do with the stuff you know.”
“You’re not nearly as useless as everyone says.”
