Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

A book.. Unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication'.. Can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence

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Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned

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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away

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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

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