"Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born."

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Source : Richard Henry Stoddard (1903). “Recollections: Personal and Literary”

Richard Henry Stoddard

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“You sleep with a man, that's your husband. So make sure before you lay down, you love him.”
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
“Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.”
“Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that had to be fed with animal sacrifices in order to burn brightly. Today we have evolved a long way from this ridiculous notion of a 'fire god' and now rightfully understand God to be a bearded being who lives amongst the clouds and hates Jews and homosexuals.”
“There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.”
“The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.”
“I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.”
“Love is full of imagination.”

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