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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
would-be overwhelmed numb
That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy. Alanis Morissette
would-be film bigs
I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible. Chloe Sevigny
would-be colony
What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial". Dave Barry
would-be assuming narcissism
It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live. Bryan Fuller
would-be action amazed
You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of. L. Ron Hubbard
would-be motivational-business workforce
Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. Bill Rancic
would-be ifs indescribable
Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable. Edward Gorey
would-be want chains
I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have. Arthur Rubinstein
would-be investigation faculty
A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome. Antonin Artaud
poverty world wealth
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth! Charles Dickens
poverty discovering american-poverty
One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
poverty donation
Poverty isn’t solved with donations. Carlos Slim
poverty ending-poverty should
No one who works for a living should live in poverty. Edward Kennedy
poverty suits rags
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public. Charles Lamb
poverty
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger. Charles Lamb
poverty dresses female
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. Charles Lamb
poverty sickness melancholy
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work Charles Baudelaire
poverty poor should
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty. Benjamin Franklin