Vanity is the quicksand of reason.


George Sand

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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
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I worship the quicksand he walks in.
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I worship the quicksand he walks in.
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We looked like we were in quicksand.
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The chase of the whirlwind is vanity.
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Without death life is vanity & without life death is vanity.
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Vanity is the polite mask of pride.
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One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
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The status quo sucks.
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The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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Praise the bridge that carried you over.
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Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
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Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
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Sanity is madness put to good use.
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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
GEORGE ORWELL
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually l...
GEORGE ORWELL
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
GEORGE ORWELL
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha...
GEORGE ORWELL
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL