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Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.


Mercedes Ruehl


#awhile #caliber #good #kind #other

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.


Louisa May Alcott


#conceit #danger #finest #genius #gifts

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.


Louisa May Alcott


#conceit #consciousness #danger #even #finest

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.


Russell Baker


#school #spoils #until #us #vital

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.


John Cleese


#force #i #i think #money #most

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.


Will Rogers


#about #actual #how #know #learn

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.


Baltasar Gracian


#age #bad #beauty #even #everything

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.


Elihu Root


#avowed #desires #forth #ground #nation

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?


Tom Barrett


#farmer #our #picnic #rain #saves

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.


Ambrose Bierce


#american #cookery #his #humorist #intellectual






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