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“Guppy,” says Mr. Jobling, “I will not deny it. I was on the wrong side of the post. But I trusted to things coming round.” That very popular trust in flat things coming round! Not in their being beaten round, or worked round, but in their “coming” round! As though a lunatic should trust in the world’s “coming” triangular!”
― Bleak House
― Bleak House
“Lafayette showed a courtier’s love of compliments, was a master of flattery, and liked to hug people in the French manner. Perhaps Washington doted on the young man because he dared to express emotions that he himself stifled, thawing his frosty reserve and opening an outlet for his suppressed emotions.”
― Washington: A Life
― Washington: A Life
“Blaise rather liked the way that manners had been pared down to their essentials.”
― Hollywood
― Hollywood
“Slippery use of the word “privilege” is part of a vogue of calling achievements “privileges”—a vogue which extends far beyond educational issues, spreading a toxic confusion in many other aspects of life.”
― Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
― Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
“Fools cannot bear to have anyone over them, and so they ignore God or deny he exists. Some of this rebellion exists in every heart. Every sin is a kind of practical atheism—it is acting as if God were not there. That also means that belief in God must be a gift.”
― The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms
― The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms
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