#which

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#company #crowd #digestion #even #exercised

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#his #little #lives #nature #nothing

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ↗

— Mark Twain

#deaf #hear #kindness #language #see

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#like #locked #locked up #safe #universe

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democratic government #escape #government #obligation #only

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#also #defects #demand #enterprises #excel

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#character #correspond #german #landscape #roads

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#amazed #facility #follow #i #i am

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#buried #community #darkness #deep #fact

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now? ↗

— Ernst Toller

#ask #could #dead #death #earthly