Dad's final and maybe his greatest public service was the great highway war.


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Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, u...
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
CHARLES LAMB
Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say gra...
CHARLES LAMB
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
CHARLES LAMB
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accide...
CHARLES LAMB
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
CHARLES LAMB
The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion hu...
CHARLES COLTON
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
CHARLES JAMES
Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DEGAULLE
Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterint...
CHARLES BASS
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int...
CHARLES SUMNER
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
CHARLES SUMNER
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of...
CHARLES LINDBERGH
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
CHARLES LAMB
Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat...
CHARLES LAMB
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and th...
CHARLES LAMB
Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bra...
CHARLES STUDD
Because the fees associated with a reverse mortgage are high, such loans make sense only for borrowe...
CHARLES DUHIGG
In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they n...
CHARLES DUHIGG
Because reverse mortgages do not require borrowers to make immediate repayments, the interest charge...
CHARLES DUHIGG
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
CHARLES DICKENS
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends.
CHARLES SPRAGUE
The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;<...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

("The dev...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
the way to create art is to burn and destroy
ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth...
CHARLES LAMB
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man...
CHARLES RICHARDS
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
CHARLES DICKENS
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have wri...
CHARLES MORGAN
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himse...
CHARLES BUXTON