Alec-Tweedie Quotes
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Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.
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Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.
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We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.
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The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.
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Theatrical work means too much work or none.
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Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
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He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.
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Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
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Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.
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Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.