"The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread."

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Source : Will Carleton (1873). “Farm Ballads”, p.127

Will Carleton

#Eye Quotes #Hands Quotes #Editors Quotes

“Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.”
“If you want people to like you you have to buy them things.”
“When we realize that the strength of the Infinite is our strength and that the strength of the Infinite is limitless, we must come to the conclusion that we are capable of doing anything that the living of a great life may demand.”
“Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.”
“Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.”
“Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.”
“This is a Pandora's box, for endless litigation, for division in society setting one group against another, and we must for that reason, for community cohesion, resist this bill.”
“Find joy in the ordinary.”

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