World Quotes

• "Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world."
  By: Lord Chesterfield
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• "In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."
  By: Lord Chesterfield
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• "Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world."
  By: Lord Chesterfield
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• "You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light."
  By: Vicomte de Chateaubriand
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• "If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people."
  By: John Jay Chapman
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• "At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion."
  By: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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• "Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?"
  By: Miguel de Cervantes
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• "There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."
  By: Miguel de Cervantes
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• "My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little."
  By: Miguel de Cervantes
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• "A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."
  By: Miguel de Cervantes
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• "The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."
  By: Willa Cather
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• "Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it."
  By: Pablo Casals
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• "It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know, and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything."
  By: Joyce Cary
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• "The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous."
  By: Barbara Cartland
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• "The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder."
  By: Angela Carter
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• "No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves."
  By: Rachel Carson
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