“Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.” — Ouida, Princess Napraxine
Tag: familiarity
Quote of the Day
“Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.” — Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe
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“Resist our tendencies to make ‘right’ or ‘true’ that which is merely familiar, and ‘wrong’ or ‘false’ that which is only strange.” — Robert Kegan, In Over Our Heads
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“Superiority makes every man feel its equal. It is courtesy without condescension; affability without familiarity; self-sufficiency without selfishness; simplicity without snide. It weighs sixteen ounces to the pound without the package, and it doesn’t need a four-colored label to make it go.” — George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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