"What are wits for unless a man uses them?"

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Ellis Peters

#Men Quotes #Use Quotes #Wit Quotes

“Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not known for a generation." After twenty years of Democratic rule, during which the intellectual had been in the main understood and respected, business had come back into power, bringing with it "the vulgarization which has been the almost invariable consequence of business supremacy.”
“Do not mourn the dead with the belly.”
“We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.”
“Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)”
“Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.”
“Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.”
“I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.”

Source : Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.
“When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.”

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