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The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful person #best #best man #cleverest #competition

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#duty #earthly #father #happen #highest

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#any #helps #kind #literature #more

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful #best #free #illusion #moment

The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing. ↗

— Thomas Hearne

#english #laughing #race #weeping #worst

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested! ↗

— Thierry Henry

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I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from. ↗

— Thomas Hearns

#came #god #i #i came #knew

It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#easy #except #find #go #hard

I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#call #disorder #free #free will #had

And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#angeles #being #down #go #going