Norman Douglas quotes

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two. (Norman Douglas)
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. View quote
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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. View quote
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The families of our friends are always a disappointment. View quote
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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. View quote
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. View quote
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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. View quote
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. View quote
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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. View quote
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Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes. View quote
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As to abuse, I thrive on it. Abuse, hearty abuse, is a tonic to all save men of indifferent health. (Norman Douglas)
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. View quote
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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. View quote
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Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. View quote
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. View quote
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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. View quote
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The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. View quote
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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. View quote
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. View quote
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. View quote
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