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| "... Let's consider your age to begin with---how old are you?" "I'm seven and a half, exactly." "You needn't say `exactually,'" the Queen remarked. "I can believe it without that. Now I'll give _you_ something to believe. I'm just one hundred and one, five months and a day." "I can't believe _that_!" said Alice. "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes." Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one _can't_ belive impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was you age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." |
| ~ Through the Looking-Glass Chapter v ~ |
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| A wilderness of sweets. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 294. ~ |
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| We have been and are still going through endless suffering without deriving any benefit whatever from it. Now that we have promised to be good-hearted, we should try not to get angry when others insult us. Being patient might not be easy. It requires considerable concentration. But the result we achieve by enduring these difficulties will be sublime. That is something to be happy about! |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, November 7, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlet, No. 1. (1850.) ~ |
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| I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. |
| ~ John Milton, Tractate of Education. ~ |
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| It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. |
| ~ Plutarch, Of the Training of Children. ~ |
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| The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,—simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Hawthorne and His Mosses” (1850), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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