You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
Norman Douglas
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More quotes by Norman Douglas
- You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
- Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
- Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
- There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
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