There is not enough exercise in this way of life. I try to make up by active gymnastics before I dress when I get up, by walking r...apidly in the lower hall and the greenhouse after each meal for perhaps five to ten minutes, and a good hand rubbing before going to bed. I eat moderately; drink one cup of coffee at breakfast and one cup of tea at lunch and no other stimulant. My health is now, and usually, excellent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After we had breakfasted by ourselves, one of our bed-fellows, who had also breakfasted, came along, and, being invited, took a cu...p of tea, and finally, taking up the common platter, licked it clean. But he was nothing to a white fellow, a lumberer, who was continually stuffing himself with the Indians' moose meat, and was the butt of his companions accordingly. He seems to have thought that it was a feast "to eat all." It is commonly said that the white man finally surpasses the Indian on his own ground, and it was proved true in this case.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And like that game with which the Japanese amuse themselves by dipping in a porcelain bowl of water, small bits of paper which, un...til then were indistinct, but, scarcely plunged in the water, stretch, distort, become colored, differentiated, turn into flowers, houses, substantial and recognizable personages,in the same manner all the flowers in our garden and those of Mr. Swann's park, and the water-lilies of the Vivonne, and the good people of the village and their little homes and the church and all of Combray and its environs, all this which takes shape and solidifies, has come, town and gardens, from my cup of tea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The morning cup of coffee has an exhiliration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot ...be expected to reproduce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was acted as he planned: grown old and favourite, With most Old Boys he was quite intimate... For though he never realised it, he Dissolved. (Like sugar in a cup of tea.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are den...ied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calli...ng attention to himself in the right quarters?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything.... Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends ...by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »