“Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.”
Source: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 1
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A Utopia of Usurers (1917)
“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
As quoted in The Great Quotations (1971) edited by George Seldes, p. 641
Source: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 2 (p. 277).
“A man that's fond precociously of stirring,
Must be a spoon.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
Morning Meditations (1839), St. 10.
1830s
“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Ryan North (1980) Canadian webcomic writer and programmer
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Third State of the Union Address (7 December 1903)
1900s
“He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 62.
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XX : Persistence; Mrs. Maxwell to Helen