"We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers."
― Marguerite Gardiner
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Power
More From Marguerite Gardiner
- "Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little."
- "Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious."
- "Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?"
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- "The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"― W. E. B. Du Bois