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“Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.” quote by Elizabeth Bibesco — Download Open image

“Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.”

Elizabeth Bibesco

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The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

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Lady Luck's maiden name was Miss Fortune

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Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

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You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb…

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It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses.

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He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

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Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

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We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

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To some people the impossible is impossible.

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