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"It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman."
Proverbs 21:19, King James Version
"I expect that every man has to work out his creed according to his own wave-length, and the hope is that the Great Receiving Station is tuned to take all wave-lengths." Rudyard Kipling, letter to Henry Arthur Jones
"School-keeping is a dreary task, only relieved by the pleasure the teacher takes in two or three bright and beautiful pupils. The majority of the children will be brutal, or (to use a milder word) infidels, and the consoler is the appearance of genius and noble nature in one or another." Journal of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proverbs 21:19, King James Version
"I expect that every man has to work out his creed according to his own wave-length, and the hope is that the Great Receiving Station is tuned to take all wave-lengths." Rudyard Kipling, letter to Henry Arthur Jones
“A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.” Alexis de Tocqueville.
"Lord Belgrave, having clenched a speech in the House of Commons with a long Greek quotation, Sheridan, in reply, admitted the force of the quotation so far as it went, "but," said he, "had the Noble Lord proceeded a little further, and completed the passage, he would have seen that it applied the other way." Sheridan then spouted something, ore rotundo, which had all the ais, ois, ous, kon, and kois, that give the world assurance of a Greek quotation; upon which Lord Belgrave very promptly and handsomely complimented the Hon. Member on his readiness of recollection, and frankly admitted, that the continuation of the passage had the tendency ascribed to it by Mr Sheridan,and that he had overlooked it at the moment when he gave his quotation. On the breaking up of the House, Fox, who piqued himself on having some Greek, went up to Sheridan and asked him, "Sheridan, how came you to be so ready with that passage? It certainly is as you say, but I was not aware of it before you quoted it." It is unnecessary to observe, that there was no Greek at all in Sheridan's impromptu." Allegedly from the Westminster Review, quoted in The Examiner, January 15, 1826.
"Lord Belgrave, having clenched a speech in the House of Commons with a long Greek quotation, Sheridan, in reply, admitted the force of the quotation so far as it went, "but," said he, "had the Noble Lord proceeded a little further, and completed the passage, he would have seen that it applied the other way." Sheridan then spouted something, ore rotundo, which had all the ais, ois, ous, kon, and kois, that give the world assurance of a Greek quotation; upon which Lord Belgrave very promptly and handsomely complimented the Hon. Member on his readiness of recollection, and frankly admitted, that the continuation of the passage had the tendency ascribed to it by Mr Sheridan,and that he had overlooked it at the moment when he gave his quotation. On the breaking up of the House, Fox, who piqued himself on having some Greek, went up to Sheridan and asked him, "Sheridan, how came you to be so ready with that passage? It certainly is as you say, but I was not aware of it before you quoted it." It is unnecessary to observe, that there was no Greek at all in Sheridan's impromptu." Allegedly from the Westminster Review, quoted in The Examiner, January 15, 1826.
"School-keeping is a dreary task, only relieved by the pleasure the teacher takes in two or three bright and beautiful pupils. The majority of the children will be brutal, or (to use a milder word) infidels, and the consoler is the appearance of genius and noble nature in one or another." Journal of Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wrote the other day about how conservatism needs a new name as there is nothing left to conserve. The increasingly evident radicalism of American conservatives suggest they are now looking less to the past than a revolutionary future https://t.co/7SnqywYV9q— Mary Harrington (@moveincircles) February 15, 2020
"The reader is left with an impression of a man who has spent his life doing an impression of a man" | @DouglasKMurray on John Bercow's autobiography https://t.co/0mYLEPfZ2k— UnHerd (@unherd) February 14, 2020
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