I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is — its irresistible charm — a fire.
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On a child doing homework near the family’s television set, in Roger’s Version (1986)John Updike
Luis Miguel has something special, an irresistible charm.
Luis Miguel
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game.
Charles Lamb
The fire upon the hearth is low,
And there is stillness everywhere,
And, like winged spirits, here and there
The firelight shadows fluttering go.Eugene Field
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
Updike, John
Upham, Thomas Cogswell
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