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Joseph Epstein has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these…
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be…
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A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
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One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the…
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What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in…
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Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
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High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and…
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I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost…
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I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book…
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While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly…
— Rita Mae Brown
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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur…
— Beatrix Potter
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Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on…
— Vladimir Putin
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I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery,…
— Jonathan Swift
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I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.
— Peta Wilson
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I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.
— Gemma Arterton
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I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats. And if we didn't wear fur coats, those little animals…
— Unknown Author
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Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.
— Unknown Author
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I feel very sorry for women who continue to purchase real fur coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites,…
— Jayne Meadows
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Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?
— Emo Philips
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And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook.…
— Esther Dyson
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