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«I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
a bit, delighted, fresh, fresh start, prospect, prospecting
«The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
communicate, communication, elaborate, elaborated, The Less
«Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.»
«Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves»
«Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| About:
Advertising,
Age,
Disillusionment,
Life,
Living,
Perfection
| Keywords:
advertisement, age of, An Age, disillusion, disillusioned, perpetually, spread
«Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.»
«What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
lessen, respect to, tended, with respect to
«I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
discovering, dozen, half a dozen, half dozen, important person, lifetimes
«When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.»
«It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
everyone else, shouting, speaking in, tones
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