The society of women is the element of good manners.


Jonathan S. Haas

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JONATHAN STROUD
Nothing could keep me from you. Nothing in life or Death...
JONATHAN STROUD
I'ts how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our...
JONATHAN STROUD
Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost,” ...
JONATHAN STROUD
Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your f...
JONATHAN STROUD
Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit ...
JONATHAN STROUD
God rest her soul and may she never walk at night
JONATHAN STROUD
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, six...
JONATHAN STROUD
One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
JONATHAN STROUD
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, m...
JONATHAN STROUD
Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a cer...
JONATHAN STROUD
Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the m...
JONATHAN STROUD
Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.
JONATHAN STROUD
More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else.
JONATHAN STROUD
Strange how close the darkness is, even when things seem brightest. Even in the glare of a summer no...
JONATHAN STROUD
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Don't set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdo...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is ...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFT
If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by...
JONATHAN KOZOL
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you pleas...
JONATHAN SWIFT