#nit

Stupidity talks, vanity acts. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#stupidity #talks #vanity

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#creditor #dignity #master #only #owns

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bring #fraternity #great #light #perils

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#fall #frailty #grace #her #much

No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#could #country #earth #granted #never

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#citizen #community #compel #decisions #every

Language makes infinite use of finite media. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#infinite #language #makes #media #use

While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#am #appreciate #deliver #given #great

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. ↗

— David Hume

#growth #knowledge #learning #retarded #scholastic

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity. ↗

— John Hume

#basic #british #british government #else #government