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“Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.”

Book:Essays

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Essays

Essays is a compilation of non-fictional pieces that delve into a wide range of subjects, including philosophy, culture, and personal experiences. Each essay is an individual piece of writing that presents a unique perspective on its subject matter. more

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Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley was an American journalist and writer, born on May 5, 1890, in Pennsylvania, and died on March 28, 1957. Known for his humorous and witty writing style, Morley is considered an important figure in American literature of the 20th century. more

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest”

Writing Book Real Certain Fall Social Simple Adventure Communication Messages Letters Add Falling In Love Titles Bliss Telephones Conquest Hearted Imports Colossal Real Books

Book:The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.”

Men Problem Five Ears Forty Hardship Salt Crowns Thorns Crown Of Thorns

Author:Christopher Morley

“If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.”

Ifs Reminding Reminding Yourself

Book:Morley's Variety: A SELECTION FROM THE WRITINGS OF CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, MADE BY LOUIS GREENFIELD, AND PUBLISHED IN CLEVELAND AND NEW YORK BY THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY

Source: Morley's Variety: A SELECTION FROM THE WRITINGS OF CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, MADE BY LOUIS GREENFIELD, AND PUBLISHED IN CLEVELAND AND NEW YORK BY THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY

“A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.”

Firsts May Artist Principles Effects Movement Particular Succeed Machines Complexes Wheels Fewer Employed

Book:The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master

Source: The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master

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