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“There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.”

Men Should Heart Book Matter Easy Hours Secret Half Company Written Reader Intelligent Lays Critics Conviction Every Man Impression Sufficient Unfinished Reviewers

Book:In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

Source: In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

“whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.”

Men Looks Action Speak Secret Dog Cat Intelligent Distance Strive Circles Translate Strife Secret Thoughts

Author:Agnes Repplier

“Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.”

Mind Religion Secret Principles Depends Spring Intelligent Regard Method Fortune Terror Accidents Melancholy Alarms Apprehension Recourse Enquiry Diffidence

Book:An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

Source: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

“What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.”

Ifs Men Matter Jobs Remember Lost Secret Teacher Intelligent Good Man Bad Man Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching

Author:Laozi

“Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.”

“Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.”

People Secret Intelligent Ignorant Agreement Ignorant People

Author:Vernon Howard