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If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#down #erudition #moderns #plagiarism #steal

I want to be a naughty pirate, because when I put on that eye patch, it barely covers my genitals. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #genitals #hilarious #humor #naughty

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#comforter #console #cure #death #freedom

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#books #how #know #men #ought

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#gall #incomes #large #like #our

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#fail #his #how #know #loses

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#frighten #ghost #her #religion

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#bad thing #because #clothes #sex #thing

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#easy #lives #men #pray #pray for

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health." - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland) ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #entertainment #funny #humor #jace-wayland