“Let none presume to wear an undeservèd dignity. Oh, that estates, degrees and offices were not derived corruptly, and that clear honor were purchased by the merit of the wearer!”
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 9
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. ~Ronald Reagan #FavoriteQuotes
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. - Robert Browning #FavoriteQuotes
“Usually we praise only to be praised.” ―François, duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, Maxim 146 #FavoriteQuotes