Quote #13

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

More from Joseph Priestley

  1. The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
  2. This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
  3. She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
  4. To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
  5. Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
  6. To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as w…
  7. Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
  8. To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

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