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Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.”
-- Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

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“Life is not to live merely, but to live well.”
-- Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

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“It is not enough to love those who are near and dear to us. We must also show them that we do so.”
-- Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

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“The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,”
“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.”
“Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.”
“Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.”
“Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.”
“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”
“Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.”
“Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.”
“You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.”
“The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.”

Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury quotes

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