"MORAL: If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable."

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“Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.”

“In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment.”

“Whom are you?" he said, for he had been to night school.”

“She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.”

“MORAL: When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.”

“A Piker always has his entire Stock of Goods in the Show Window.”

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"The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions—none more so than the most capable."

— Theodore Dreiser

Literature1871–1945

#ethics

"Patel's speech at Bahaddin College, Junagadh: "If Hyderabad does not see the writing on the wall, it goes the way Junagadh has gone. Pakistan attempted to set off Kashmir against Junagadh. When we rai…"

— Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Politics1875–1950

#writing

"I am genuinely sympathetic towards India. I have got real fears about the future. India, I feel is a burden on us. We have got to maintain an army and for the sake of India we have to maintain Singapo…"

— Winston Churchill

Politics1940–2010

#truth

"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid f…"

— Elizabeth Warren

Politics1949

#art