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“Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.”

Persons Fantasy Struggle Sane Madmen Discworld Small Gods Shopkeepers

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.”

Nations Hatred Universal Breaths Presses Christmas Merit Reluctant Fiery Sausage Disgusted Shopkeepers

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.”

Goods Commerce Outlets Shopkeepers

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.”

Said Today Nations England Goalkeepers Shopkeepers

Author:Tom Stoppard

“All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.”

People May Said Nations Common Race Produce Poet Accounts Patient Practicals Common Sense Paradox Strain Explorers Adventurer Shopkeepers

Author:Arthur Bryant

“My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't know how to help you as an actor, but if you want to be an actor, give it a go for a year. Get a job. And if you don't get a job, then we're going to reevaluate and you're going to go back to school." And I thought that was a fair thing.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Years Looks Said Helping School Jobs Guy Actors Parent Know How Dad Fairs My Dad Conservative Lovely Great Parents Shopkeepers

Author:John Kapelos

“We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.”

Nations England Shopkeepers

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.”

Ends Etc Cash Portions Exploitation Wages Bourgeoisie Landlord Labourers Shopkeepers

Book:Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history

Source: Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history

“Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy a sudden demand - unlike the railway company which doubles its trains to carry a special influx of passengers; the law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate. By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements.”

Source: Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative

“Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.”

Source: The Nancy Mitford Omnibus

“If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.”

Ifs Nations United States British Shopping Shoppers Shopkeepers

Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

“Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.”

Want Needs Ideas Money Preaching Ingenious Shopkeepers

Book:American Lit Relit

Source: American Lit Relit

“I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.”

Thinking Should Poetry Poet Honestly Honour Favourite Generalities Continental Shopkeepers

Book:The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things.”

World Mind May Able Universe Numbers Study Materials Pure Essence Mathematics Raises Sells Property Contemplation Visible Disciple Plato Shifting Tangible Merchants Shopkeepers

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“A man walks into a pet shop and says: "Give me a wasp." The shopkeeper replies: "We don't sell wasps." He says: "There's one in the window."”

Men Giving Humor Funny Walks Window Give Me Sells Shops Pet Wasps Shopkeepers

Author:Frank Carson

“To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.”

People Firsts May Government Purpose Found Nations Justice Fit Projects Sight Social Justice Investing Customers Empires Sole Shopkeepers Great Empires

Author:Adam Smith

“My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.”

School Father House Class Childhood Middle Paid Horrible Middle Class Denied Grammar Private School Grammar School Shopkeepers

Author:Kate Atkinson

“A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.”

Nations Disinterested Shopkeepers

Author:Samuel Adams

“I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.”

Kind Ideas Young Growing Possibility Ordinary Outcomes Growing Old Ordinary Life Growing Older Shopkeepers

Author:Ian Anderson

“I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.”

Ifs Book Different Would Be Artist My Own Quiet Yeah Who I Am Performers My Own Life Collectors Shopkeepers

Author:Mos Def

“I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.”

Wanted Shopkeepers

Author:Luke Evans

“[Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.”

Values Father Towns Small Town Despised Scorned Shopkeepers

Author:Hilary Mantel

“England is a nation of shopkeepers.”

Nations Business England Insulting Shopkeepers

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.”

People Real Self Jobs Life Is Machines Investment Labour Daily Life Interaction Shopkeepers Checkouts

Author:Julian Baggini

“If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.”

Ifs Want Long Journey Rewards Winter Eggs March Penguins Shopkeepers

Book:The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913

Source: The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913

“I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.”

“Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.”

Persons Said Struggle Mad Sanity Sane Madmen Shopkeepers

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Noooo, there’s no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai!”

Way Mere Sexy Handsome Bleach Shopkeepers Ichigo

Author:Tite Kubo

“I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?' 'Not a word.' 'Then how did you understand that?' 'I didn't.' ''You didn't understand what I just said?' 'That's right.' 'You understood that, though.' 'Not at all.' The American glowered.”

Said I Can Understood Sorry Ridiculous Silly Accents I'm Sorry Understand Me Shopkeepers

Author:Derek Landy

“He turned and reached behind him for the chocolate bar, then he turned back again and handed it to Charlie. Charlie grabbed it and quickly tore off the wrapper and took an enormous bite. Then he took another…and another…and oh, the joy of being able to cram large pieces of something sweet and solid into one's mouth! The sheer blissful joy of being able to fill one's mouth with rich solid food! 'You look like you wanted that one, sonny,' the shopkeeper said pleasantly. Charlie nodded, his mouth bulging with chocolate.”

Looks Said Able Wanted Joy Behinds Rich Pieces Sweet Like You Mouths Bars Enormous Chocolate Bites Sheer Charlie Back Again Shopkeepers Chocolate Bars Something Sweet

Author:Roald Dahl

“We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick - professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, "We the people," this breed called Americans.”

“One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees... The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.”

“Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.”

Thinking Should Writing Littles Said Written England Discussion Twelve Say Anything Jury Insulting Shopkeepers

Author:A. V. Dicey

“I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.”

World Writing Found Sells Glad Imaginary Transmit Readership Imaginary World Shopkeepers

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow– priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.”

Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

“Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which will not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.”

Ifs Want Years Looks Long Use Nations Deals Journey Return Promise Research Mad Rewards Winter Financial Eggs March Penguins Shopkeepers

Author:Apsley Cherry-Garrard

“The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.”

People Men Kind Political Business Class Economic Middle Men And Women Economics Middle Class Farmers Parliament Salary Artisans Shopkeepers

Author:Robert Menzies

“I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - friends, family, teachers, shopkeepers - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.”

Way Important Feelings Grows Memories Wonder Teacher Goes On Persist Being Loved Family Friends Hunches Shopkeepers Expressing Your Love

Author:Fred Rogers

“Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.”

Parent Growing Up Growing Profession Something Better Shopkeepers

Author:Les Wexner

“Shopkeepers are not bankers.”

Bankers Shopkeepers

Author:Laurent Fabius

“You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.”