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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
tone speak
I cannot speak in happy tones. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
tone
I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want. Tyler, The Creator
tone mein-kampf tradition
Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation. Adolf Hitler
tone
But the tone will change, and in diplomacy, the tone is often the reality. Charles Grant
tone musician poet
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. Cornel West
tone took
I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game. Mike Dunham
tone
First hole, making birdie, that kind of set the tone for the way the day was going to be. David Tom
tone separate-peace force
the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse John Knowles
tone voice
Don't look at me in that tone of voice David Farber
idiot machinery malfunction
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. Charles Stross
idiot grows fangs
What are you doing?" "Looking for my fangs." "We don't grow fangs you idiot! Darren Shan
idiot condescending explaining
It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot. Bill Maher
idiot sometimes cannabis
I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned. Billie Joe Armstrong
idiot mayer
We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens. Billie Joe Armstrong
idiot socialism failing
To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere. Dennis Prager
idiot
It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot. Brad Williams
idiot enough easy
Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left. Clint Eastwood
idiot dyslexic
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. David Bailey