The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited...

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited...

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism,...

Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism,...

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults...

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults...

No violent extreme endures.

No violent extreme endures.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard...

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard...

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes...

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes...

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long...

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long...

Blessed is he who has found his work.

Blessed is he who has found his work.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred...

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred...

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it...

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it...

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.