Quit Your Worrying - Couverture souple

James, George Wharton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 142180445X ISBN 13 : 9781421804453

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2005

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

to that death-in-life that is no life at all. It is the vampire that sucks out the good of us and leaves us like the rind of a squeezed-out orange; it is the cooking-process that extracts and wastes all the nutritious juices of the meat and leaves nothing but the useless and tasteless fibre. Worry is a worse thief than the burglar or highwayman. It goes beyond the train-wrecker or the vile wretch who used to lure sailing vessels upon a treacherous shore, in its relentless heartlessness. Once it begins to control it never releases its hold unless its victim wakes up to the sure ruin that awaits him and frees himself from its bondage by making a great, continuous, and successful fight. It steals the joy of married life, of fatherhood and motherhood; it destroys social life, club life, business life, and religious life. It robs a man of friendships and makes his days long, gloomy periods, instead of rapidly-passing epochs of joy and happiness. It throws around its victim a chilling atmosphere as do

Biographie de l'auteur :

George Wharton James (27 September 1858 – 1923) was an American popular lecturer, photographer, journalist and editor. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he migrated to the United States as a young man after being ordained as a Methodist minister. (Wikipedia)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 142180445X
• ISBN 13: 9781421804453
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Éditeur: 1st World Library, 1stworld Library