"Genuine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... intoxication motives and unconscious impulses and our causes of reversion, but we should probably not find anything different in kind there from what we should discover in other great countries. Those who have seen in modern industrialism dangers of coming disaster, or who now look back upon it as a genuine cause of the war were probably not mistaken. Industrialism has been producing rapidly, and in an intense form, what we may call the mood of the city, and this mood of the city contains all the conditions ...
— The Psychology of Nations - A Contribution to the Philosophy of History • G.E. Partridge
... and gratified it so adroitly that the girl could accept the pretty basketful sent to her sister without feeling like a spendthrift or a beggar. It comforted her very much, and the world began to look brighter after that little touch of kindness, as it always does when genuine sympathy makes ...
— A Garland for Girls • Louisa May Alcott
... foresaw How frivolous a baby man would be—— By what distractions he would be possess'd, How he would pour himself in every strife, And well-nigh change his own identity—— That it might keep from his capricious play His genuine self, and force him to obey Even in his own despite his being's law, Bade through the deep recesses of our breast The unregarded river of our life Pursue with indiscernible flow its way; And that we ...
— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold
... for a well-to-do Scotch cattle-man, Mr. Stewart, who had taken up a quarter-section in Wyoming. The letters, written through several years to a former employer in Denver, tell the story of her new life in the new country. They are genuine letters, and are printed as written, except for occasional omissions and the alteration of ...
— Letters of a Woman Homesteader • Elinore Pruitt Stewart
... said Rushford, with genuine feeling. "We Americans have always taken a special pride in Lord Vernon's career—his mother was an American girl, you know—and his death would be almost ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson
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