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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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or...

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or...

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in...

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in...

Silence is more eloquent than words

Silence is more eloquent than words

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on...

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on...

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their...

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their...

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this,...

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this,...

Ridicule is the language of the devil

Ridicule is the language of the devil

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing...

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing...

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there...

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there...

No person is important enough to make me angry.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men,...

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men,...

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

Biography is the only true history

Biography is the only true history

Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.

Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry...

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry...

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home...

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home...