Jake Johansen Quotes

#1. Children learned about the adult world by participating in it in a small way, by doing a little work and making a little money - a much more effective, because pleasurable, and a much cheaper method than the present one of requiring the adult world to be learned in the abstract in school. One's

Wendell Berry

#2. I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty.

Gordon Brown

#3. Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.

Lewis Cass

#4. Happy we do our work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Our standard rate. A doubloon a day."
It was generous. More than generous
some families would put him up for a week for a single coin.
"Half a doubloon a day," she said.
"No, you see, the idea behind bargaining is that you ask for a larger amount.

Ilona Andrews

#6. There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

Charles W. Chesnutt

#7. No, you were certainly not trying to seduce me, more like trying to wound my ego, break my heart, I dunno. Did you like how you felt when you walked away? Do you prefer that emotion to this?

J.B. McGee

#8. If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.

James Webb

#9. Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#10. I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark." The

Erin Morgenstern