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“Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.”

Knows Giving Writing Has Beens Pain Heaven Hours Chance Journey Reader Bitter Heartache Relaxation Tedium Bitter Experience

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.”

Has Beens Young Memories Regard Bitter

Author:Irving Kristol

“Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Government Faces Humanity Results Progress Essence Increase Constant Aids Tendencies Bitter Opposition Permanence

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.”

Has Beens Law Poor Tree Land Danger Despair Fruit Bitter Code Poison Length Fabulous Dilemma Bud Depravity

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.”

People Ifs Persons Has Beens Earth Vision Lord Blessing Bitter Sweetest Sour Blessing You

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies”

Has Beens Mother Suffering Father My Own Party Solitude Sick Bitter Servant Chairs Abandoned Tied Agony Amused Perishing

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer