Infinite riches: gems from a lifetime of readingMcGraw-Hill, 1979 - 588 páginas Elizabeth I's last great speech, an account of Marco Polo's return to Venice, and writings by Mencken, Wilde, and Twain are among the selections included in a collection of excerpts that represents Rosten's lifelong love for the printed word |
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... social life of city street walks is precisely that they are public. They bring together people who do not know each other in an intimate, private social fashion, and in most cases do not care to know each other in that fashion. Nobody ...
... social life of city street walks is precisely that they are public. They bring together people who do not know each other in an intimate, private social fashion, and in most cases do not care to know each other in that fashion. Nobody ...
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... social development in such a way as to mitigate those evils of the contemporary world which seem so harsh to the sensitive mind Self-interest is strongly aided by vanity and by the illusions of philosophy. The optimist passes with ...
... social development in such a way as to mitigate those evils of the contemporary world which seem so harsh to the sensitive mind Self-interest is strongly aided by vanity and by the illusions of philosophy. The optimist passes with ...
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... SOCIAL CONFLICTS Seek the roots of disastrous conflicts between nations and classes and sects, and invariably you find a man, often gifted and resourceful, who has failed to master his own inner turmoil — a neurotic, perhaps, or an ...
... SOCIAL CONFLICTS Seek the roots of disastrous conflicts between nations and classes and sects, and invariably you find a man, often gifted and resourceful, who has failed to master his own inner turmoil — a neurotic, perhaps, or an ...
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A. J. P. TAYLOR ALBERT EINSTEIN American ARISTOTLE BAMBER GASCOIGNE beauty believe BENJAMIN BERTRAND RUSSELL Capitalism century Chinese Christian civilization Copyright court death democracy dream earth economic enemy England English Essays Europe everything excerpts existence experience eyes face fact faith feel freedom G. K. CHESTERTON GEORGE GEORGE MIKES H. L. MENCKEN hand happy head human ideas imagination JAMES Jews JOHN King knew LASSWELL Lenin LEONARD MOSLEY letter liberty Lincoln live look Lord MARK TWAIN means mind modern moral Napoleon nation nature never night palace passion peace person philosopher political reason religion revolution Roman sense sexual SIGMUND FREUD slave social society speech Stalin talk things THOMAS THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thought tion truth turn Venice VOLTAIRE WINSTON CHURCHILL women words young
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Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |