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Timothy Shay Arthur

(1809–1885) Novelist United States

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Timothy Shay Arthur was a novelist from the United States, best known for The History of Georgia: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time.

Quick Facts About Timothy Shay Arthur

Born: June 6, 1809
Died: March 6, 1885
Nationality: United States
Profession: Novelist
Notable works: The History of Georgia: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time

About Timothy Shay Arthur

Timothy Shay Arthur — known as T. S. Arthur — was a popular 19th-century American writer. He is famously known for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Timothy Shay Arthur

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be…

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Appetite

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Even the heart in time may grow cold.

Timothy Shay Arthur

Cold

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It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.

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Difficult

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No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral…

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Able

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Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and…

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Benevolent

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When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of…

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Attractive

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A husband and wife should resolve never to wrangle with each other; never to bandy words or indulge in the least ill-humour.…

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Air

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