Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Related How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER blackmagic on a person
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Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading ALICE JAMES Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book... YANN MARTEL You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good. UZOMA NNADI The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. ... SIMON MAINWARING I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your t... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I think it is quite remarkable actually that Pope Benedict has a sense of the variety of ways in whi... VINCENT NICHOLS A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO The key to the evening is to see the humor in it. There are so many people trying to go so many diff... BOBBY O'TOOLE Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To comm... VICTOR HUGO The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Every person in life is social,but our social lives are directed towards what we sincerely love,to s... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. CHARLES KINGSLEY Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much ali... PAT BROWN This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po... TERRY PRATCHETT When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book a... DODIE SMITH Harvard in some ways is a more difficult place to be the president of because it is so large, with s... GADDIS SMITH If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so ... RAY BRADBURY A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it... GARY SHTEYNGART The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE So many people mistakenly take the Bible as a mere reading book! They read it every now and then! We... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER For, though every man has sin in him seminally, yet there are some sins which by nature he is more i... CHRISTOPHER LOVE Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it. KENNETH PACHEN In many ways, it's a more permanent medium than many other mediums. It is in many ways larger than l... ADAM FOGELSON It really concerns me that we are losing a great statesman because the current leadership is so unwi... CHUCK BOWEN In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus MADELEINE L’ENGLE I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple m... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If I didn't know you I would say I don't know you. JAIME CABRERA You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well. FREDERICK BUECHNER It’s something I never knew about her. How bizarre that you can know your entire life, see their m... KELSEY SUTTON When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER Once we have more rock samples and soil samples, we will have a lot more to go on. Nothing is better... LARAMIE POTTS Go to any bookstore, and you'll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there's ... LETITIA BALDRIGE You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w... ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s... ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ... ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ... ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t... ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o... ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every... ALBERT CAMUS
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