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- Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
- No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
- The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the…
- The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
- A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when…
- Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
- A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful…
- The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness…
- Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can…
- There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
- The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other…
- There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall
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