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  • I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Tea Quotes
  • But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes
  • Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes , Dream Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Men Quotes , Looks Quotes
  • Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Men Quotes