Quote by Margaret Halsey
He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation. – Margaret Halsey

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I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away. – Margaret Halsey

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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the worlds eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge

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My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I cant figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I dont deserve to be an owner. – Michael Symon

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Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. Its the nature of the process. – Martin Scorsese

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There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. Thats what people in Liverpool are passionate about. – Ian Rush

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