Quotations from the PG Collected Works of Gilbert ParkerParker, Gilbert
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Quotations from the PG Collected Works of Gilbert Parker
Parker, Gilbert
Canadian literature
The gods made last to humble the pride of men--there was rum
The higher we go the faster we live
The Barracks of the Free
The world is not so bad as is claimed for it
Time is the test, and Time will have its way with me
Whatever has been was a dream; whatever is now is real
Where I should never hear the voice of the social Thou must
You do not shout dinner till you have your knife in the loaf
ROMANY OF THE SNOWS, by G. Parker, v1 [GP#08][gp08w10.txt]6080
A human life he held to be a trifle in the big sum of time
Fear of one's own wife is the worst fear in the world
He never saw an insult unless he intended to avenge it
Liars all men may be, but that's wid wimmin or landlords
Men are like dogs--they worship him who beats them
She valued what others found useless
Women are half saints, half fools
ROMANY OF THE SNOWS, by G. Parker, v2 [GP#09][gp09w10.txt]6081
Bad turns good sometimes, when you know the how
How can you judge the facts if you don't know the feeling?
Put the matter on your own hearthstone
ROMANY OF THE SNOWS, by G. Parker, v3 [GP#10][gp10w10.txt]6082
Advantage to live where nothing was required of her but truth
Don't be too honest
Every shot that kills ricochets
Not good to have one thing in the head all the time
Remember the sorrow of thine own wife
Secret of life: to keep your own commandments
She had not suffered that sickness, social artifice
Some people are rough with the poor--and proud
They whose tragedy lies in the capacity to suffer greatly
Think with the minds of twelve men, and the heart of one woman
Youth hungers for the vanities
ROMANY OF THE SNOWS, by G. Parker, v4 [GP#11][gp11w10.txt]6083
Have you ever felt the hand of your own child in yours
Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy
Solitude fixes our hearts immovably on things
When a man laugh in the sun and think nothing of evil
ROMANY OF THE SNOWS, by G. Parker, v5 [GP#12][gp12w10.txt]6084
All humour in him had a strain of the sardonic
In her heart she never can defy the world as does a man
Some wise men are fools, one way or another
ROMANY OF THE SNOWS, by Parker, Complete [GP#13][gp13w10.txt]6085
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