There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.
Time touches all things with a destroying hand. - Charles W. Chesnutt
Time touches all things with a destroying hand.
- Charles W. Chesnutt
I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task. - Charles W. Chesnutt
I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.
There's time enough, but none to spare. - Charles W. Chesnutt
There's time enough, but none to spare.
We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings. - Charles W. Chesnutt
We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up w… - Charles W. Chesnutt
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up w…
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures unti… - Charles W. Chesnutt
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures unti…
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation. - Charles W. Chesnutt
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.
Sins, like chickens, come home to roost. - Charles W. Chesnutt
Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.
We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things - Charles W. Chesnutt
We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things
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