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| The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village. Line 232. ~ |
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| His memory is like wares at the auction—going, going, and anon it will be gone. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Jack Gentian” (posthumous), p. 371, Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces, The Works of Herman Melville, vol. 13, ed. Raymond M. Weaver (1924). Spoken by “a young Croesus” about Jack Gentian. ~ |
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| Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, To the Lady Fleming. ~ |
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| Illustrious predecessors. |
| ~ Henry Fielding, Covent Garden Journal. Jan. 11, 1752. ~ |
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| Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Of Studies. ~ |
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| A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing. |
| ~ Euripides, Meleager. Frag. 525. ~ |
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| For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Traveling” (1859-60), 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). A lecture. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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