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It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
The Late George Apley (1937)
Some day you will know that there is a beauty of the soul that is more important than worldly beauty. Remember this when you see worldly beauty.
The Late George Apley (1937)
Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.
The Late George Apley (1937)
I wonder whether you know exactly what marriage means. It is, my boy, a damnably serious business, particularly around Boston.
The Late George Apley (1937)
Nothing which is worth while is easy, nor in my experience is the actual doing of it particularly pleasant. The pleasure arises from completion and from the knowledge that one has done the right thing and has stood by one’s convictions.
The Late George Apley (1937)
There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years. This is a time of life when a solicitous family does well to watch affectionately over the vagaries of its unattached relatives, particularly of those who are comfortably off.
The Late George Apley (1937)
To any rightly thinking person, . . . there can be no compromise between wrong and right. Germany is wrong and the Allies are right. The devastations of Belgium and the atrocities of the invading horde of barbarians are an outrage to civilized mankind.
The Late George Apley (1937)
If George Apley failed to meet certain challenges, let us admit that we all have failed in some respects, and let us remember that we stand together peculiarly as one large family. Collectively, in habits and ideals, our group is a family group where kinship, however distant, stretches into the oddest corners.
The Late George Apley (1937)