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No, what was sad in his case was that he, who didn’t care for carved oak, should have his drawing-room panelled with it, while people who do care for it have to pay enormous prices to get it.
“அடங்காத வெறியோடு பொறுமையைக் கைக்கொள்வது மட்டுமே மனம் பக்குவப்பட்டதன் உச்ச அடையாளம்.”
― வீரயுக நாயகன் வேள்பாரி, முதல் தொகுதி
― வீரயுக நாயகன் வேள்பாரி, முதல் தொகுதி
“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.
“...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.”
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“Life worked in such a way that right was not necessarily right, but rather what the person in charge said was right.”
― The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
― The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
“Not allowing people to go through their pain, and protecting them from it, may turn out to be a kind of over-protection, which in turn implies a certain lack of respect for the integrity and the intrinsic nature and the future development of the individual.”
― Toward a Psychology of Being
― Toward a Psychology of Being
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