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  • I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Tea Quotes
  • Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Love Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Solitude Quotes