Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Great Regulars: And while such an one is ploughing distressfully

up the road, it is not hard to understand his resentment, when he perceives cool persons in the meadows by the wayside, lying with a handkerchief over their ears and a glass at their elbow. Alexander is touched in a very delicate place by the disregard to Diogenes.

from Daily Times: Purple Patch: An apology for idlers --Robert Louis Stevenson

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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal. Those who are angry may be reconciled; those who have been injured may receive a recompense: but when the desire of pleasing and willingness to be pleased is silently diminished, the renovation of friendship is hopeless; as, when the vital powers sink into languor, there is no longer any use of the physician.

from Daily Times: Purple Patch: The decay of friendship --Samuel Johnson

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