Alec-Tweedie Quotes

#1. Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

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#2. He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

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#3. Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.

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#4. Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way ...

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#5. Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

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#6. We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

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#7. Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

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#8. Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

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#9. The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

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#10. Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

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#11. Theatrical work means too much work or none.

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#12. Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

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