Quote by Janet Frame
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually ma

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. – Janet Frame

Other quotes by Janet Frame

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. – Janet Frame

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Imagination
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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, were always in other places, lost, like sheep. – Janet Frame

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Travel
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Persuasion
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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar. – Proverb

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He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock. – Scottish Proverb

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Persuasion

When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth. – Proverb

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Persuasion

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life — there, if one must speak out, the real man. – Marcus Aurelius

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Persuasion

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There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the breast when struggling passions lower,
Touched by its influence, in the soul arise
Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies. – John Henry Newman

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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu

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