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  • Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Broken Quotes , House Quotes
  • For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , House Quotes
  • Oftentimes, misunderstandings and antagonism surfaces most strongly when economic times are tough. And that's not surprising. If everybody is working and feeling good and making money and buying a new house and a big screen TV, you're less worried about what other folks are doing.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , House Quotes , Feel Good Quotes
  • I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Hatred Quotes , House Quotes