Reception Quotes
James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company
Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.152, Simon and Schuster
People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.240
A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
1763 Remark, 20 Jul. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.491, Library of America
Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6454, Delphi Classics