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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.
cotton found percent socks
We found that 100 percent cotton socks were usually the worst, especially when a person started to sweat. Robert Mooney
cotton history life marriages plantation recorded southern washing work
What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures. Robert Wilson
cotton gin
I never thought my cotton gin would change history. Eli Whitney
cotton making-money laurels
I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton. Albert Einstein
cotton foundation natural
Natural fabrications such as linen, silk, cotton sateen and voile are the foundation for this trend.
cotton eat fluffy stay
You can eat a lot more vegetables than you can cotton candy. Bring on the veggies. Stay away from the fluffy carbs. Stephen Furst
cotton-candy weapons shields
Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either. David Levithan
cotton may hard
It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have. David Baldacci
cotton hold looked saw talking trying
He is trying to get away, and we are trying to get a hold of him. He hollers, 'Shoot him.' And that is when me and Cotton looked where he was talking and first saw Jennifer.
gingrich newt results
When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people. J. C. Watts
ginger girls home money spice tour
I was super-obsessed with the Spice Girls. Ginger was my favorite. They had a tour in 2008, and my home girls went, but I didn't have the money to go! Kreayshawn
gin hard herself house major office presenting sound theme trying white
The overarching theme in the questionnaire, I think, is trying too hard to gin herself up, ... She makes it sound like the White House counsel's office is the solicitor general, which it's not. She's presenting it as an office with major constitutional responsibility.
gin great happiest marriages proper shortest sudden union
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
gin great walk
Of all the gin joints, they had to walk into ours. Everything was going great and then comes this.
gin towns walks
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. Humphrey Bogart
gingrich meant nice people stepping
Gingrich did a real nice job. We're getting some young people stepping up. That meant a lot.
ginger injury played players practice three
He was very ginger in practice (earlier in the week). But he played through it. ... And this is the kind of injury that would put a lot of players out for two or three weeks.
gingrich needs newt pundits sean tom
The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity. Moby
history who-we-are way
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David McCullough
history want done
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
history social shank
History is the shank of the social sciences. C. Wright Mills
history lafayette might
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. Cesare Pavese
history want grants
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant
history
When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.
history lists surprise
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Kurt Vonnegut
history
History! Read it and weep!
history disposition efficacy
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon