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Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#inoffensiveness #politeness #poor

To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#joy #laugh #laughter #life #life-lessons

In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come. ↗

— Amor Towles

#historical #romance #vision

They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs. Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other exception even among the married couples) there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so simliar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become aquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement. ↗

— Jane Austen

#literature #romance #civilization

At Starbucks I like ordering a “Tall venti in a grande cup.” That’s basically me asking for a small large in a medium cup.
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— Jarod Kintz

#barista #coffee #confusion #hassle #large

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#silence #solitude #coffee

Rest assured, you make perfectly good nonsense.  I understand you one-hundred-percent not at all. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#nonsense #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sarcasm #unclear

If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim. ↗

— Pittacus Lore

#hector-ricardo #pittacus-lore #the-power-of-six #information

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#information

At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don’t panic because they don’t know what’s going on, and then later they panic precisely because they don’t know what’s going on.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ignorance #ignorant #information #knowledge #panic