

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady,â€� he remarked on suitable occasion. “Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon’s knife, effective but unpleasant. Candour with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
― Autobiography of a Yogi

“It was hard work-a hard life-but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners

“actress Esther Williams on the wall. The note that Louie had left on the locker was gone, as was the liquor. Among Louie’s things, Krey found photographs that Louie had taken inside his plane. In some of them, Louie”
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“According to Time Out magazine, at any given moment there are 600,000 people on the Underground, making it both a larger and more interesting place than Oslo.”
― The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
― The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

“I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
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