“Many men of importance were gathered there to be seen talking with other men of importance, resulting in an abundance of conspicuous but immaterial discourse.”
Source: The Visitor (2002), Ch. 4 : the cooper, p. 40
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Preface to the Elements of Architecture (1624).
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Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
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Context: I cannot call this Shakspeare a "Sceptic," as some do; his indifference to the creeds and theological quarrels of his time misleading them. No: neither unpatriotic, though he says little about his Patriotism; nor sceptic, though he says little about his Faith. Such "indifference" was the fruit of his greatness withal: his whole heart was in his own grand sphere of worship (we may call it such); these other controversies, vitally important to other men, were not vital to him.
Bernard Hollowood (1910–1981) English cricketer
Cricket on the Brain (1970)
“I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
I'm No Angel (1933)
“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Phantom 'Rickshaw http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/PhantomRickshaw/phantomrickshaw.html (1888). <br class="br">Other works
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
