Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another...
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Roman Payne
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.
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Amit Kalantri
Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.
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Indonesia123
Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicinethe impossibility of being human Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his townthe impossibility of...
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Charles Bukowski
More Quotes By George Bancroft
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
