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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.
house progress earth
Charles Dickens Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.
house soul one-day
Alan Paton One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
house suits fine
Alan Rickman If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
house together found
Alan Alda I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
house want pins
Al Sharpton If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
house clinton obligation
Chris Christie It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.
house suffering majority
Chris Christie There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.
house sitting window
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out
house sides paint
Edward Hopper What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
london forget sometimes
Alan Rickman You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
london emptiness endless
China Mieville London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.
london wells objectives
Dayron Robles The objective is to do things well in London.
london grim-reaper motorbike
Benedict Cumberbatch I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
london firsts excitement
Antony Beevor When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
london moved teenage tower
Maajid Nawaz During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
london planning my-family
Charlotte Church They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.
london royal eric
Carole King I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.
london doe justified
Camille Pissarro It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!