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If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story. ↗

— Rex Stout

#books #chess #chore #come #detective

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all. ↗

— Rex Stout

#based #believe #decisions #different #different thing

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#just #never #never give up #place #tide

Friendships are discovered rather than made. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#friendships #made #rather #than

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#common #french #french literature #literature #our

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#could #everlasting #fashionable #grand #great

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#folly #nothing #obstinacy #reason

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#everyday #everyday life #great #heroic #insipid

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#builds #children #does #easily #england

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#common #common things #endeavor #far #our