"I maintain that, if everyone knew what..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
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“Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?”
“We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.”
“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.”
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“Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.”
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
“For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.”