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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
— William Lyon Phelps
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William Lyon Phelps
university teacher, scientist, writer
1865 – 1943
William Lyon Phelps was an American author, critic and scholar. He taught the first American university course on the modern novel. He had a radio show, wrote a daily syndicated newspaper column, lectured frequently, and published numerous books and articles.
All Quotes by William Lyon Phelps
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
— William Lyon Phelps
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
— William Lyon Phelps
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The expression "as right as rain" must have been invented by an Englishman.
— William Lyon Phelps
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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
— William Lyon Phelps
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
— William Lyon Phelps
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
— William Lyon Phelps