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• Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Children, Self, Ends

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Gossip, Reputation, Good Company

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• Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Time, Moving, Fishing

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Stars, Men, Hands

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• The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of the has-been-a shameful rather than a pitiable sight today-brings a sudden chill even to our sunlit moments.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Success, Winning, Sight

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• Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

  Louis Kronenberger

  May, Reign, Conformity

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 122, 1954.

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• It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.

  Louis Kronenberger

  New York, Eye, Years

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• The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Ambition, Air, Adventurous

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• London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.

  Louis Kronenberger

  New York, Men, Cities

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Men, Law, Might

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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• One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Writing, Men, Judging

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• The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Guy, Gentleman, Want

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 120, 1954.

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• In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Thinking, Civilization, Desire

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• With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Action, Moral, Ethical

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• The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Live Life, Assuming, Reason

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• In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Grief, Dark, Night

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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