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Bah, humbug!
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"I didn't say she was dead. I said I killed her."
~ Barnabas Collins (b. 1770). Said to his father Joshua Collins in 1795 after the elder Collins discovered Angelique was alive. (Angelique was killed and sometimes buried more frequently than any other character on that old show.) |
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"I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out." Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
/I was listening to the Simon Callow-narrated audiobook like this and it cracked me like an eggshell. |
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Diligent dilettante
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This quote notable for being genuinely droll, an interlude from Dickens' bizarre holiday agenda of visiting nothing but prisons, orphanages, insane asylums and legislatures (tautology?)
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This quote is another that is notable for making me laugh, although I doubt that was the author's intent:
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cacoethes scribendi
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Heh! Cold enough to burn. Neither smooth nor sensual would describe the feeling.
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“As Machiavelli observed, Rome showed, tyrant after tyrant, how those reared in palatine luxury, expecting to be master of the world, basely abused the godlike authority that fell to them unearned, while those promoted through merit—Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius—made judicious use of the Imperium of which they considered themselves, not owners, but custodians. It is not power that corrupts, but the belief that it is yours.”
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I'm scratching my head over that second quote. Is it from the point of view of a religious fundamentalist (e.g. the only book you need is the Bible)?
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From Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
"Where does character come into it? Just this: I’ve always been pretty sure I could kill someone if I had to. Myself, or my father—whichever option proved most practical. I wouldn’t kill for hatred’s sake; I’d only do it to solve a problem. And only after other solutions have failed. That kind of bottom line is either in your character or it isn’t, and like I said, it develops early." |
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“Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.”
― Heinrich Heine |
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