George Payne Rainsford James quotes
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“Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.”
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Source : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”
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“Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.”
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“Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.”
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“Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.”
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“I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.”
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“Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft”
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