Edward Eggleston quotes
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“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.”
-- Edward EgglestonSource : Edward Eggleston (1874). “The Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age”, p.128
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“Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.”
-- Edward EgglestonSource : Edward Eggleston (1872). “The End of the World: A Love Story”, p.59
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“I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force-I don't suppose you know about the od which Reichenbach discovered.”
-- Edward EgglestonSource : Edward Eggleston (1891). “The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York”, Ridgewood, N.J : Gregg Press
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“Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.”
-- Edward EgglestonSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 49, 1895.
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“The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.”
-- Edward Eggleston
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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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