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book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
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.
book men soul
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.
scott-fitzgerald lasts firsts
F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation. Gertrude Stein
scott-fitzgerald lightning
Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning. Ernest Hemingway
scott-fitzgerald talent prolonging
F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent. Mason Cooley
crooks crime
Crooks are early adopters. Craig Newmark
crooks noir sam-spade
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. Dashiell Hammett
crooks destroy fill gas goes money oil people portion stop
When you fill your gas tank, a portion goes to dictators, sheiks and crooks around the world who funnel some of this money to terrorists, ... We need to stop importing oil from people who want to destroy our way of life. Brian Schweitzer
crooks flee fun nice someplace
Most of our crooks flee to Louisiana. But now they can't. It's nice that someone is from someplace fun like New York. Todd Miller
crooks hook remember
By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember Homer
crooks criminals shoulders
Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals. Jason Statham
crooks ridiculous wells
Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook. Jacob Zuma
crooks wells
Well, I'm not a crook. Richard M. Nixon
crooks
I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.