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Quote by William Faulkner
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors. – William Faulkner

Other quotes by William Faulkner

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps its the risk, the gamble. In any event its a thing I need. – William Faulkner

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Horses, Horse Racing
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William Faulkner
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Maybe it was because like not only finds like; it cant even escape from being found by its like. Even when its just like in one thing, because even them two with the same like was different. – William Faulkner

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Differences
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William Faulkner
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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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We need — and should encourage and honour — not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. – Walter Moberly, The Crisis in the University

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You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate. – Logan Pearsall Smith

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. – Mark Twain

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