"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."

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Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.112, Transaction Publishers

Irving Babbitt

#Reading Quotes #Sunday Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“Information wants to be free,because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.”
“Even Napoleon had his Watergate.”
“Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.”
“Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.”
“Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light.”

Source : Jason F. Wright (2006). “Christmas Jars”
“I travel, always arriving in the same place.”
“He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.”
“There were a couple of occasions when it was passed around - and, unlike President Clinton, I did inhale!.”

Source : Interview with Brian Cowen, Hot Press, May 23, 2007.

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