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“Why," I said treacherously, "first thing you know, you'll be having a wonderful time in school. You've just forgotten what school is like."
"No, we haven't," Robert said.
"I used to love school," I said.
This was a falsehood so patent that none of them felt it necessary to answer me, even in courtesy.”
― Life Among the Savages
"No, we haven't," Robert said.
"I used to love school," I said.
This was a falsehood so patent that none of them felt it necessary to answer me, even in courtesy.”
― Life Among the Savages
“You don't think, John, that you might ultimately come to love Agnes Flack?'
'I do not.'
'Love frequently comes after marriage, I believe.'
'So does suicide.”
― Mr. Mulliner Speaking
'I do not.'
'Love frequently comes after marriage, I believe.'
'So does suicide.”
― Mr. Mulliner Speaking
“Talleyrand was notorious for taking bribes. But then he was endlessly practical. He liked to lecture the young foreign office clerks on the necessity of masturbating before coming to work, thus ensuring unclouded minds at least throughout the morning.”
― Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
― Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
“Indeed, there is always something very restful about a duck. Whatever earthquakes and upheavals may be afflicting the general public, it stands aloof from them and just goes on being a duck.”
― Full Moon
― Full Moon
“Kaplan Schröder stand bei dem Justizrat, schimpfte mächtig, daß nun der Termin immer näher rücke, an dem das Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch eingeführt werden solle. Kaum zehn Jahre mehr, und aus war’s mit dem Code Napoléon. Und man hatte dasselbe Recht im Rheinlande, wie drüben in Preußen. Gar nicht auszudenken!
„Ja“, seufzte der Justizrat, „und die Arbeit! Was man da alles wieder lernen muß. Als ob man nicht gerade genug zu tun hätte.“ Ihm war’s im Grunde völlig gleichgültig: er würde sich ebensowenig mit der Lektüre des Bürgerlichen beschäftigen, wie er je das Rheinische Recht studiert hatte. Gott sei Dank, seine Examina hatte man ja gemacht.”
― Alraune
„Ja“, seufzte der Justizrat, „und die Arbeit! Was man da alles wieder lernen muß. Als ob man nicht gerade genug zu tun hätte.“ Ihm war’s im Grunde völlig gleichgültig: er würde sich ebensowenig mit der Lektüre des Bürgerlichen beschäftigen, wie er je das Rheinische Recht studiert hatte. Gott sei Dank, seine Examina hatte man ja gemacht.”
― Alraune
Tobit’s 2024 Year in Books
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