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«Adventure must start with running away from home»
«A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color»
Author: William Bolitho
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Women
| Keywords:
aura, clear-cut, features, impression, In Living Color
«The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.»
«It is when pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.»
«We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.»
«Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social»
«The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.»
Author: William Bolitho
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confessed, distracting, in all likelihood, likelihood, practically, professions, pursuits
«Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unfrocked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself. In Wilson, the whole of mankind breaks camp, sets out from home and wrestles with the universe and its gods.»
«An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.»
«General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.»
Author: William Bolitho
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