"It seems to me as natural and necessary……" — F L Lucas
"It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption."
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F L Lucas
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16 Quotes by F L Lucas
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Most style is not honest enough.
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Might was the measure of right.
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Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good,…
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The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure…
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And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to…
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire…
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Great fear is concealed under daring.
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I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary…
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may…
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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not…
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