#carelessness

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause. ↗

— Harry Vardon

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How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. ↗

— Jane Austen

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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness. ↗

— Arthur Baer

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When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God. ↗

— Luis Palau

#confusion #easier #face #god #instead

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself. ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. ↗

— Noel Coward

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