Quote by Willa Cather
He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, a

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. – Willa Cather

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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. – Willa Cather

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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. – Willa Cather

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God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through. – Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942

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All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty. – Logan Pearsall Smith

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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. – Jean Rostand

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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. – George Bancroft

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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. – Herbert Hoover

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