
“If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well.”
Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships (2015)
“If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well.”
Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
“How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.”
Part 2, Chapter 5 (p. 22)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
“Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.”
“Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.”
Stephen Tobolowsky in his podcast The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 35 – Playing It As It Lays http://www.slashfilm.com/the-tobolowsky-files-ep-35-playing-it-as-it-lays/.
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 396
"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Context: p>Man's books are but man's alphabet,
Beyond and on his lessons lie — The lessons of the violet,
The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil:The toil that nature ever taught,
The patient toil, the constant stir,
The toil of seas where shores are wrought,
The toil of Christ, the carpenter;
The toil of God incessantly
By palm-set land or frozen sea.</p