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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
satire hated shows
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. Carroll O'Connor
satire humour enjoy
It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control. Dario Fo
satire pornography humans
Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. Angela Carter
satire offence
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any. Jonathan Swift
satire dunces
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
satire
This has a lot of satire in it. Katherine Hough
satire audience ifs
If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized. Gore Vidal
satire beats
Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon. Chris Rock
satire ill satirist
Satirists do expose their own ill nature. Isaac Watts
valuable available
When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable. Charles Frazier
valuable humans human-beings
The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings Alfred Marshall
valuable
The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion. David Hare
valuable
We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
valuable tedious ifs
Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it. Alain de Botton
valuable
Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable. Alice Hamilton
valuable
What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.
valuable conclusion draws
Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning. Barry McCaffrey
valuable
would have been a valuable contributor to our board. Richard Grasso