Better things Quote by Hugh Kingsmill

“It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.”

Hugh Kingsmill

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Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

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“Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.”

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The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

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Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

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Believe me, I have better things to do than sabotage your friendships. No one else's world revolves around you, Cassandra." -Paige to Cassandra

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Prayers go up, blessings pour down!! God always makes a way for better things to happen, feeling blessed.

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

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