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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.


Nicolas Chamfort

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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich
CHAMFORT Conspiracy of the rich;The rich have all conspired to take complete control of their minds & direct ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Conspiracy of the rich:The rich have conspired to humbly serve the poor & therefore grab their meage...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Conspiracy of The Rich;The rich desire riches so they conspire to use the resources of the poor to g...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's Irony;If some dead folks can witness how their offsprings will be fighting over their estates...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The mindset of the poor;I need more college degrees to be able to make impact in life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Never endeavor to separate the poor from the rich,for they are one,they originated from the same sou...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Give a poor mind $1m & service will ultimately end,but the rich knows that life is all about service...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The only difference between the rich & the poor is how they process their thinking.
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PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
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KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
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WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
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NICOLAS BERGGRUEN I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'How...
NICOLAS CAGE President Chavez has always been a loyal friend of Gaddafi, assassinated in the crudest way possible...
NICOLAS MADURO I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid pl...
NICOLAS CAGE Similar questions were posed to Allende as to me. Allende was told that he blamed everything on a co...
NICOLAS MADURO I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had ...
NICOLAS CAGE Let's dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a ...
NICOLAS MADURO How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not...
NICOLAS CAGE Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a livi...
NICOLAS MADURO If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligenc...
NICOLAS CAGE Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like...
NICOLAS CAGE I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I st...
NICOLAS CAGE And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft o...
NICOLAS ROEG You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a hug...
NICOLAS ROEG I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and h...
NICOLAS ROEG I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't ...
NICOLAS ROEG The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scar...
NICOLAS CAGE I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood ...
NICOLAS CAGE I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches...
NICOLAS MADURO I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we re...
NICOLAS MADURO The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribut...
NICOLAS MADURO I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria ...
NICOLAS CAGE Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I ...
NICOLAS CAGE I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez...
NICOLAS MADURO You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE The United States are ruled by a financial, media-centered, military-industrial apparatus. Behind Ob...
NICOLAS MADURO Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of...
NICOLAS SARKOZY One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually re...
NICOLAS CAGE I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few...
NICOLAS BERGGRUEN We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its at...
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