The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
– Rmy de Gourmont
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- Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it. – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
- … Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods – David Gemmell
- A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much. – Haruki Murakami
- Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be. – Jessica Kissner
- Forgive me….I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel. – Lloyd Alexander
- That one doesn’t count. The poor scoundrel is deaf, but he makes a fine sniffer. How do you think we found you? – HS Crow
- It is complexes that prevent women with a good appearance from adequately assessing themselves – Sunday Adelaja
- Focke’s razor: Never attribute to plot holes that which is adequately explained by miracles. – Kevin Focke
- Science Fiction has always attracted more talented writers than it could reward adequately. – Walter M Miller Jr
- Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. – Rebecca Solnit
- Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? – Kate Morton
- Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. – Robert J Hanlon
- Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel’s plea, ‘My forbears did the same. – AlMaarri
- Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. – Thomas Carlyle
- The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard. – Ruth Minshull
- Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel. – Samuel Johnson
- Good men’s actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel’s charityIs carefully planned to please. – Abu alAla alMaarri
- Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. – Marcel Marceau
- Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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- Silence upon silence, with a heaping pile of extra silence. – MA George
- First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak. – Henri JM Nouwen
- I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed. – Anne Spollen
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- It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. – Marcel Proust
- When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure. – Miguel Ruiz
- God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell! – Michael Bassey Johnson