SplendorThe failures and hopes in the life of a reporter, from childhood in Boston to present day. |
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Page 291 - Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
Page 205 - There's no future for a man in the newspaper business. Nothing but a lot of work, and a sanitarium when your nerves play out. Late hours, long hours, dull scratching at things. But a writer is always a writer. If a man can write, he's free; he can get out, away from the paper when he wants. A free man.
Page 375 - Then, what do you want me to do?" "I don't want you to do anything.
Page 424 - Naud£, op. cit. 436. the Phoenicians in the old world, commerce was not so much a means to an end as an end in itself. Had Holland been ambitious of retaining her position as a world power she had ample resources at her command, and she might have made an effective bid for the leadership among the representatives of Western Civilisation. But she did not rise to the responsibility ; while other nations advanced and...
Page 138 - The afternoon went swiftly. It was the first time Henry had ever really talked about himself to Shirley; and he became more and more confidential. Before Mrs. Prior returned to call them to supper, he had told her all his plans and hopes and ambitions; and Shirley said she was sure he would do wonderful things. He told her he was saving money. "I started to save up to buy a bicycle,
Page 459 - I thought it would be better by and by, and there didn't seem to be anything anyone could do about it. And I knew I'd see baby.
Page 144 - Then we'll have each other all to ourselves, while we're getting settled in our little home," she explained; and they contemplated the prospect rapturously.
Page 151 - ... which in the end bind together man and wife as close as steel. They made day by day many new discoveries; they found new wonders...
Page 155 - He would manage it at last, but even in bed he kept on talking till he heard her breathing evenly by his side and knew that she had drifted into sleep like a child's.
Page 537 - Men whose appearance is persistently youthful wear hirsute adornments so that they may seem older than their years; and there is nothing more pleasing to a man in his twenties than to be told he looks ten years older than he is.