Infinite riches: gems from a lifetime of readingMcGraw-Hill, 1979 - 588 páginas Elizabeth I's last great speech, an account of Marco Polo's return to Venice, and writings by Mencken, Wilde, and Twain are among the selections included in a collection of excerpts that represents Rosten's lifelong love for the printed word |
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... person you contact before they will reveal that they are not the right person and pass you on to someone else who is also not the right person. — ALAN BRIAN, Spectator (London), March 1964 EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797) Burke was a practical ...
... person you contact before they will reveal that they are not the right person and pass you on to someone else who is also not the right person. — ALAN BRIAN, Spectator (London), March 1964 EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797) Burke was a practical ...
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... person's knowledge is blurred, and he has been told about human dignity, and Tolstoi and Plato by someone to whom these don't really mean anything, then he emerges with a disrespect for learning — which makes him think less well of his ...
... person's knowledge is blurred, and he has been told about human dignity, and Tolstoi and Plato by someone to whom these don't really mean anything, then he emerges with a disrespect for learning — which makes him think less well of his ...
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... person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated deference to the Court, indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not ...
... person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated deference to the Court, indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not ...
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A. J. P. TAYLOR ALBERT EINSTEIN American ARISTOTLE BAMBER GASCOIGNE beauty believe BENJAMIN BERTRAND RUSSELL Capitalism century Chinese Christian civilization Copyright court death democracy dream earth economic enemy England English Essays Europe everything excerpts existence experience eyes face fact faith feel freedom G. K. CHESTERTON GEORGE GEORGE MIKES H. L. MENCKEN hand happy head human ideas imagination JAMES Jews JOHN King knew LASSWELL Lenin LEONARD MOSLEY letter liberty Lincoln live look Lord MARK TWAIN means mind modern moral Napoleon nation nature never night palace passion peace person philosopher political reason religion revolution Roman sense sexual SIGMUND FREUD slave social society speech Stalin talk things THOMAS THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thought tion truth turn Venice VOLTAIRE WINSTON CHURCHILL women words young
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Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |