"Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds."

-- Felix Adler

#Peaceful Quotes #Mind Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
“That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!”
“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”
“Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.”
“There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.”
“Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.”

Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.223, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The I is the soul, which endures.”
“All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.”

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