F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
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He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
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There is no one subsists by himself alone.
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I quite like L.A.
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Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.
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I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.
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Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.
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We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
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Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
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A candidate has no right to force himself upon an unwilling party.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
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Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.
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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
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My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.
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The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
