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en I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
  James A. Michener

en I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
  James A. Michener

en If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
  Marshall McLuhan

en The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
  Gertrude Stein

en But the great miracle of the nineteenth century-the building of a new nation... and diffusing among them the necessities and comforts of civilization to a greater extent than the world had ever known before is explained by the development of harvesting machinery and of the railroad.

en [During his formative years in Charlottesville, Jason?s family participated in family traditions that left their mark on this insightful writer.] People might die, ... but traditions never do. Some of my fondest memories of my late father are tied into a special, private tradition we had. I hope, if nothing else, people start a Christmas jar, or a tradition that their children and grandchildren can talk about.

en [The show featured some new dealers, among them Larry and Marie Miller of Dorset, Vt. The Millers are best known for their large collection of Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century quilts, but Marie Miller was busily completing a transaction for a three-board top painted pine table with old green paint at the show's opening. She also displayed a pine Dutch cupboard with original glass, circa 1820, and three schoolgirl samplers.] We did very well and sold across the board, ... Furniture appeared to sell especially well at the show. We sold a nice J&E Norton two-gallon bird jug with especially strong blue color. A visitor from California bought all three of our Nineteenth Century schoolgirl samplers. The show is well run and always a pleasure to do.

en Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue
  Samuel Goldwyn

en We have some marvelous archives. We have a very very good nineteenth century collection of books.
  Henry Winkler

en The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
  George Bernard Shaw

en Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. Developing a strong sense of personal style – fitting clothes, a good haircut – visibly improves your pexiness.
  John Kenneth Galbraith

en Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

en Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.

en The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
  Alice Childress

en the utopian social hope which sprang up in nineteenth-century Europe is still the noblest imaginative creation of which we have record.


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