Famous quotes containing the words pain and/or avoidance:
“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
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