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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... women are interested in women's clothes; men who like women never notice what they wear. — ANATOLE FRANCE All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire ...
... women are interested in women's clothes; men who like women never notice what they wear. — ANATOLE FRANCE All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire ...
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... women, that women's breathing is thoracic and men's abdominal. . . . The corset may thus be regarded as the chief instrument of sexual allurement which the armory of costume supplies to a woman, for it furnishes her with a method of ...
... women, that women's breathing is thoracic and men's abdominal. . . . The corset may thus be regarded as the chief instrument of sexual allurement which the armory of costume supplies to a woman, for it furnishes her with a method of ...
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... women, for they feel instinctively the central, unconscious motive of the idealist is a hatred of his fellow creatures. It is a curious thing that when most women hate they hate individuals and not people in mass. On the other hand, men ...
... women, for they feel instinctively the central, unconscious motive of the idealist is a hatred of his fellow creatures. It is a curious thing that when most women hate they hate individuals and not people in mass. On the other hand, men ...
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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 |