Rex Stout, page 251
Invitation to Learning
El Duce, The Man, The Myth, The Video (1993) by Reverend Cuntbag
“It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.”
“Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.”
Source: Every Day
“Better to put things at the worst at first, and reserve the best for a surprise.”
Mieux vaut mettre les choses au pis tout de suite, répondit l’ingénieur, et ne se réserver que la surprise du mieux.
Part I, ch. IX
The Mysterious Island (1874)
Context: Better to put things at the worst at first," replied the engineer, "and reserve the best for a surprise.
"V. S. Pritchett: Midnight Oil," p. 227
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
“America represented to my father, as Lincoln put it, "the last, best hope of earth."”
I would like to be able to say that this made my father a remarkable man for his time and his circumstances. For, in many ways, he truly was a wonder. But this is not one of those ways. Among the Hungarians I knew—aside from those who were true believers in the Communists—this was the common sense of the subject. It was self-evident to them.
"Born American, But in the Wrong Place" (2006)
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment”
