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“Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.”

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Charles Simmons, born in 1924, is an accomplished novelist. His works are renowned for their profound character development and emotional depth, which have won him a wide readership. more

“When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.”

“Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.”

Needs House Individual Interest Office Saving Privacy Assistance Loan Savings Creditors

Book:Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe

Source: Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe

“To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.”

Sin Wicked Privacy Scandal

Author:Moliere

“Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.”

Thinking Trying Long Turns Fine Honor Embrace Graves Lust Dust Privacy Ashes Worms Virginity Quaint

Author:Moliere

“Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That is why private opinion, and private behavior, and private conversation are so terrifyingly important.”

World Important Opinion Conversation Behavior Privacy Mars Public Opinion Overflow

Author:Jan Struther

“That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.”

Break Equality Legs Privacy Ants Liable

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.”

Political Social Moral Progress Stage Privacy Stations Degradation Social Progress

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.”

Source: Gentleman's Agreement

“The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE.”

Knows Children Body Faces Parent Inspiring Someday Legends Nickels Engraved God We Trust

Book:Novels, 1967-1972

Source: Novels, 1967-1972

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