"Oh, what a day-to-day business life is."

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Source : 'Complainte sur certains ennuis' (1885)

Jules Laforgue

#Life Is Quotes

“The Lord is the accomplishment of everything good that I think, feel and do.”
“I married an awesome cook, thats cool!”
“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”
“While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.”
“â€Ž'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.”
“Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?”
“Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.”
“The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.”

Source : E. M. Delafield (2015). “The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)”, p.2296, e-artnow

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