Quote by J.B. Priestley
We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the fut

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. – J.B. Priestley

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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? – J.B. Priestley

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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. – J.B. Priestley

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What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. – Friedrich Holderlin

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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. – Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879

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Men can bear all things except good days. – Dutch Proverb [Quoted in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs comprisin

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It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. – La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, 1665

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Seek truth and you will find a path. – Frank Slaughter

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Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. – George Bernard Shaw

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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. – Douglas Everett

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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