- Quotes by Charles Dickens
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature”. - Quotes by Destouches
“Those not present are always wrong”. - Quotes by Rene Descartes
“Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess”. - Quotes by Charles Robert Darwin
“The main conclusion of this work, namely, that man is descended from some lowly organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians”. - Quotes by Confucius
“Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still”.
“As good be out of the world as out of the fashion”.
“Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse”.
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is”.
“The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places”.
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