“ That's easy, Russell said. Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ... Les Standiford
“ To Dickens, true charity was a matter of openhearted benevolence; to use the relief of poverty as a cudgel to beat a recipient into piousness was repellent and evil. Les Standiford
“ One worker housed in Camp No. 10 on Key Vaca was overheard to say, Building this railroad has become a regular marathon. The remark struck a chord in his fellow workers, who dubbed their camp Marathon… Les Standiford
“ As even newly elected presidents have learned, trying to correct the conduct of business as usual in the federal bureaucracy is like trying to nudge an ocean liner off its path by standing on a rubber… Les Standiford
“ Then why on earth had she never told anyone about these things? Matthews asked. Linda didn’t miss a beat. Because no one ever asked, she said. You’re the first that ever did. Les Standiford
“ It is worth noting here, that in attracting 100,000 readers to issues of The Old Curiosity Shop, Dickens was reaching an unprecedented portion of his country’s audience. While no formal records of lit… Les Standiford
“ It’s like you’ve been in a terrible accident and had your arm amputated, she told him. After a while, the pain goes away, and eventually you even learn to get along without your arm. Some days you’re… Les Standiford
“ Dickens believed that a reasonable capitalistic society could be made to recognize its responsibility to all its citizens, and that it was the duty of those most fortunate to share a portion of their… Les Standiford
“ The houses there sat on lots of an acre or more, and some neighbors still kept horses. The urban centers of Fort Lauderdale and Miami were nearby, and if you wanted a dose of the city, you could easil… Les Standiford
“ Society. John Forster, who would one day become Dickens’s great friend, adviser, editor, and first biographer, wrote in the Examiner that Dickens had excelled particularly in his portraits of the ludi… Les Standiford
“ Permanent construction of the sort Flagler was referring to would not come cheaply, however. Early in 1910, Flagler wrote to John Carrere, designer of the Ponce de Leon Hotel in St. Augustine, that re… Les Standiford
“ In his profession, Wright had seen horror stacked on horror, plenty of evidence that there was no shortage of hell right here on earth. As to what had kept him sane in the face of all that he had witn… Les Standiford
“ Daniel Maclise (whose 1839 oil of Dickens hangs today at the National Portrait Gallery). Les Standiford
“ The more a man learns, Dickens said, the better, gentler, kinder man he must become. When he knows how much great minds have suffered for the truth in every age and time… he will become more tolerant… Les Standiford
“ The value of a personal fortune is better understood in relation to the total gross national product of an individual’s era. By that measure, Carnegie was worth $112 billion in his day, far ahead of B… Les Standiford
