Peter Reading famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.
As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

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