"It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven."

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Source : Johann David Wyss, Isabelle de Montolieu (1871). “The Swiss Family Robinson: Or, Adventures in a Desert Island. Six Coloured Engravings on Steel”, p.246

Johann David Wyss

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“I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.”
“I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.”
“The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.”
“That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.”
“As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as an attribute of the world, is always there. It is something other than the absence of yellow and blue--and, thus, when that red becomes less red, it becomes more one or the other. It never exists in a linguistic condition of degradation or excess that must necessarily derive from our expectations.”
“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”
“I will say that the difference was that when you're an Army journalist, as opposed to a civilian correspondent covering the military, you're very often either a public relations agent or expected to perform that role. I would say that one of the most unexpected benefits of that job was being taught to never try to cover anything up, but rather to get any bad information out right away, so that there would be nothing more to come out later. This was a wonderful lesson to be taught because often the effort to cover up a story becomes a bigger story than the original one.”

Source : "Clarence Page: The 'Culture Worrier' interview". Interview with Kam Williams, baystatebanner.com. March 12, 2015.
“To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.”

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