“ Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. ”
- Owen Felltham- Copy
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“ No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
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“ That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost — good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word… Oh, strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch! ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. ”
- Charlotte Bronte- Copy
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“ The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. ”
- B.C. Forbes- Copy
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