#ruin

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

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What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another. ↗

— Virgil

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Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#another woman #basically #been #career #ever

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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As parents, we need to talk to young people about drugs and make sure they understand that drugs are dangerous, addictive substances that can ruin their lives and harm their communities. ↗

— John Walters

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I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. ↗

— Andy Warhol

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It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined. ↗

— Josiah Warren

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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ↗

— George Washington

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