Frances Gray Patton quotes
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“Restraint is the better part of beauty.”
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“empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.”
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“To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.”
-- Frances Gray Patton
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“Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.”
Source : International Liberal Conference, July 1928.
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“such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.”
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“People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.”
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Source : "Essential reading for science writers: The Big Short by Michael Lewis" by Mark Henderson, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2012.
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“Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.”
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