Words Worth Noting - July 13, 2026

“And in that glance [eye to eye] you see the sort of man: and chiefly there are two sorts. The one sort always brooding, always planning; mean, silent men, collecting properties and money; keeping the law on their side, keeping everything on their side; except women and heaven, and the late, leisurely judgement of simple people: and the others merry folk, whose eyes twinkle, whose money flies, who will sooner laugh than plan, who seem to inherit rightfully the happiness that others plot for, and fail to come by with all their schemes.”

Lord Dunsany Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley [filed in my notes under “Scrooge and Cratchit”]