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What quotes stood out to you?
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Not much really stood out to me as quotable in Book I...
"For things will never be perfect, until human beings are perfect - which I don't expect them to be for quite a number of years!"
(Penguin Classic, page 64)
"For things will never be perfect, until human beings are perfect - which I don't expect them to be for quite a number of years!"
(Penguin Classic, page 64)
Book II was a little more quotable!
"No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can."
(Penguin Classic, page 80)
"It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose."
(Penguin Classic, page 93)
"No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can."
(Penguin Classic, page 80)
"It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose."
(Penguin Classic, page 93)


