Perhaps this general degradation was the result of too much crowding, too little privacy, too much noise. You couldn't be decent if you weren't intelligent; you couldn't be intelligent if you couldn't think–and who could think in all this racket? Add the stench to the...
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Lloyd C. Douglas
In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in...
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Upton Sinclair
The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
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Terry Pratchett
As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.
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Charles Bukowski
Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.
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Edwin Way Teale
More Quotes By Max Beerbohm
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
