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“There is no neatness in any life- great or small. It is only an illusion men foolishly pursue. All lived lives are a mess. The neatness in my life had begun to crumble some time before, but now it disintegrated completely as I vanished into a world of endlessly opening doors, teasing riddles and lives without boundaries. For the first time I began to understand how shallow neatness is. How cramping, how limiting. For the first time I understood neat lives are comatose lives. (the Alchemy of Desire 304)”

Men World Firsts Desire Doors Illusion Understood First Time Boundaries Opening Pursue Mess Shallow Neat Alchemy Tease Riddle Neatness Opening Doors Comatose

Author:Tarun J. Tejpal

“The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth but himself.”

Earth Perseverance Yankees Dutch Scotch Frugal Neatness

Author:Frances Trollope

“We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.”

Men Shows Social Decent Conformity Excess Display Etiquette Neatness Coquetry Dandyism

Author:Robert Adam

“Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.”

Philosophy Virtue Constituents Symmetry Tidy Neatness

Book:The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches

Source: The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches

“Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.”

Mind Facts Virtue Extremes Moderation Exactness Neatness

Author:Francois Fenelon

“'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and finish. 'It's as if the morbid condition was an evil creature which, when it found itself closely hunted, flew at the throat of its pursuer. If you worry the microbes too much they may worry you. I've seen cases of it, and not necessarily in microbic diseases either. There was, of course, the well-known instance of Liston and the aneurism; and a dozen others that I could mention.'”

Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)