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book night men
Charles Dickens Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
book reading writing
Charles Dickens There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Charles Caleb Colton Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
book reading advice
Charles Caleb Colton When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
Charles Caleb Colton We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
Charles Caleb Colton Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book reading writing
Charles Caleb Colton Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
book writing companion
Charles Caleb Colton With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
writing hands would-be
Charles Dickens It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
writing hair fire
Charles Dickens Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...
writing numbers gold
Charles Caleb Colton Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
writing language nonsense
Charles Caleb Colton It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
Charles Caleb Colton He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
Charles Caleb Colton The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
Charles Caleb Colton There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
Charles Caleb Colton We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
Charles Caleb Colton The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
golf wanted realised
Alan Hansen I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.
golf mph car
Ed Begley, Jr. I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
golf player thinking
Daymond John I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.
golf sides awful
David Duval I know the other side. I know what awful golf is.
golf winning sometimes
David Duval It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.
golf balls wells
David Duval When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.
golf serious needs
David Duval You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.
golf differences bottom
David Duval I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.
golf people television
David Brenner I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.