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book beer words-of-wisdom
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. Charles Dickens
book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
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. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading advice
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
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
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
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
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.
luxury waiting silence
For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. Audre Lorde
luxury poetry-is
Poetry is not a luxury.
luxury existence poetry-is
For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
luxury throwing
We accomplished a lot. That's the luxury of throwing on the side. You can get things done. Mike Maddux
luxury privilege free-will
The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it. Bertrand Russell
luxury people world
When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it! Agnetha Faltskog
luxury tea delicacy
Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury. Charles Lamb
luxury matter world
Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world. Carolina Herrera
luxury income should
Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly. Calvin Trillin
solemn cease
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. Aldous Huxley
sole tyranny paradise-lost-book-1
Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n. John Milton
sole artifice experiments
Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature. Leonardo da Vinci
solemn
It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader. Bill Owens
sole
Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it. Peter Shaffer
sole source experiments
Experiment is the sole source of truth. Henri Poincare
sole dictionary
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me. Zadie Smith