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country men climate
Charles Caleb Colton In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
country travel home
Charles Caleb Colton Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
Charles Caleb Colton In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
Charles Caleb Colton As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
Charles Caleb Colton The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Charles Dickens Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
Charles Dickens If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Charles Dickens Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
humorous eye men
Charles Dickens There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.
humorous america chinese
David Riesman America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
humorous thinking trials
Alan Thicke If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
humorous might canada
Charlie Chaplin Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.
humorous rejection acting
Charlie Chaplin Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
humorous party night
Charlaine Harris You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.
humorous thinking soldier
Bill Mauldin I drew pictures for and about the soldiers because I knew what their life was like and understood their gripes. I wanted to make something out of the humorous situations which come up even when you don't think life could be any more miserable.
humorous phones dvds
Bill Maher Don't call me when you're stuck in traffic. It's not my fault that radio sucks and did it ever occur to you that there wouldn't be so much traffic if people like you put down the phone and concentrated on the road... besides I can't talk now, I'm in the car behind you trying to watch a DVD.
humorous technology boys
Bill Maher The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.
divorce liberty doe
Edward Gibbon [The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .
divorce able sentimental
Edith Wharton in the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time ...
divorce needs need-money
Arnold Schwarzenegger Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.
divorce years interesting
Diablo Cody I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.
divorce fighting two
Benjamin Walker People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can't divorce the two. It's important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.
divorce people world
Cheryl Cole Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.
divorce california adultery
Cher The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.
divorced wretchedness my-own
Beth Henley I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
divorced time
Natasha Trethewey My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.