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Post by Gator on May 6, 2020 3:25:21 GMT -5
I never reasoned on what I should do, but what I had done; as if my Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.
Henry Fielding
(1707-1754)
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Post by Gator on May 7, 2020 1:08:40 GMT -5
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
Edith Wharton
(1862-1937)
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Post by Gator on May 8, 2020 2:21:30 GMT -5
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936)
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Post by Gator on May 8, 2020 23:34:55 GMT -5
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834)
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Post by Gator on May 9, 2020 23:12:41 GMT -5
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot
(1819-1880)
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Post by Gator on May 11, 2020 19:51:08 GMT -5
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Francis Bacon
(1561-1626)
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Post by Gator on May 11, 2020 23:23:28 GMT -5
That's the reason they're called lessons...because they lessen from day to day.
Lewis Carroll
(1832-1898)
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Post by Gator on May 13, 2020 21:58:33 GMT -5
Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!
John Milton
(1608-1674)
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Post by Gator on May 14, 2020 1:05:52 GMT -5
The sea—this truth must be confessed—has no generosity. No display of manly qualities—courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness—has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad
(1857-1924)
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Post by Gator on May 14, 2020 23:04:32 GMT -5
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot
(1819-1880)
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Post by Gator on May 15, 2020 23:42:27 GMT -5
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue.
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
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Post by Gator on May 16, 2020 23:33:21 GMT -5
If a governor comes out of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes out poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead.
Miguel de Cervantes
(1547-1616)
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Post by Gator on May 18, 2020 7:57:48 GMT -5
Habit, n.: A shackle for the free.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914)
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Post by Gator on May 19, 2020 1:22:13 GMT -5
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
(384 BC-322 BC)
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Post by Gator on May 20, 2020 7:05:02 GMT -5
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
Willa Cather
(1873-1947)
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