Eden Phillpotts Quotes

#1. We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

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#2. A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

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#3. As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? Self.

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#4. We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

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#5. You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

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#6. I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

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#7. If it were but known that the combined might of the world was against aggression, the war-minded could only seek his salvation in peace, perceiving that further ostentatious preparations for war were idle.

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#8. Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm of lovemaking.

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#9. The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

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#10. Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

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#11. You are but a tiny cluster upon the vines of heaven, where the grapes are worlds; yet you hold the power to ripen your bitter berries and add to the eternal vintage of cosmic sweetness if so you will.

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#12. I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

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#13. No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

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#14. You are a cruel and lying species. You have not kept faith with evolution; you have not kept faith with yourselves; you have not kept faith with your own prophets and seers.

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#15. The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

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#16. A Socialist State demands precisely the same human symbols as that of Fascist or Nazi, and the same surrender of human liberties if it is to succeed.

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#17. Nine-nine of every hundred among you probably desire peace, while the balance may hold war a condition to be preferred; but what can be the mental norm of statesmanship where such a minority conquer the peace-lovers?

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#18. The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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#19. Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

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