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| Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter.... To begin: there’s Aries, or the Ram—lecherous dog, he begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull—he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins—that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path—he gives a few fierce bites and surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the virgin! that’s our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales—happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the Scorpion, stings us in rear; we are curing the wound, when whang come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself. As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside! here’s the battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing, and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the Waterbearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us; and, to wind up, with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Stubb, in Moby Dick, ch. 99 (1851). ~ |
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| I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and by tourists into town. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter, Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, June 1, 1909. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 1: 108, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930). Taft felt that he must answer many requests for personal appearances. ~ |
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| Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 240. ~ |
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| Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. iv. 5. ~ |
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| Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 449. ~ |
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| Large districts are manifestly favorable to the elections of persons of general respectability and probable attachment to the rights of property, over competitors depending on the personal solicitations practicable on a contracted theatre. |
| ~ Notes on Suffrage, written at different periods after his retirement from public life (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 27) ~ |
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| 'T is strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto xi. Stanza 59. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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