“The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.” MenLifeSeemsAgeFacesSufferingSocialLossAcceptingWatchesBeatsMen And WomenMiseryDisappointmentDuesManageCustomsStomachUnusualDelayAcquaintanceTediousDenseTickZestZealousPunctureZest For LifeObfuscationTockTick TockCraftiness Author:Edward Hoagland
“The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.” LifeLife IsWishGriefObjectsConsequenceDisappointmentPettyIncidents Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous