#well

Man lives for science as well as bread. ↗

— William James

#lives #man #man lives #science #well

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#nails #similes #well-worn-phrases #christmas

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. ↗

— George Orwell

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I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.' ↗

— Donny Most

#could #dramatic #dramatic work #guess #i

Placing one last kiss over her heart, he lifted his head to find her staring at him with The Look—the one that told a guy when a woman was leaving Let’s Screw For Fun City and headed straight for Let’s Pick Out China Town—written all over her pretty face. ↗

— Gina L. Maxwell

#gina-l-maxwell #seducing-cinderella #love

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

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