"When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families."

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Source : Treetops pt. 2, ch. 11 (1991)

Susan Cheever

#Happy Family Quotes

“So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.”
“Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”
“I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.”
“I wanted to be a radio announcer.”
“Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.”

Source : Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.393, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
“It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.”
“It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.”

Source : "Week One Rewind / A capsule look at Sunday's games Bledsoe's reunion with Parcells a happy one 49ers, Dolphins post upsets over playoff teams". Article by Milt Northrop, buffalonews.com. September 12, 2005.
“Listening to albums and records is not the best way to percept Verka Serduchka. Live shows are the place where you can feel that specific atmosphere, that is not going to be the same ever.”

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