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When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm. ↗

— Xun Zi

#come #could #desirable #detestable #fact

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. ↗

— Les Brown

#around #comfortable #countenance #feel #give

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#charitable #covetous #makes #wealth #you

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#charity #enemy #every #every man #executioner

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. ↗

— Robert Browning

#beauty #end #garner #i #laws

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#car #drove #girl #goes #head

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#core #increase #inner #international #peace

Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#comfortable #concerned #does #earned #earning

It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#acts #constitutional #especially #last #last year

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#cash #certain #comfortable #depreciate #equivalents