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@edgarblythe,

“Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.”
― Steve Maraboli,

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"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule."
-- Charles Dickens, GREAT EXPECTATIONS

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“The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.”
Ramsey Clark

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@edgarblythe,

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
- Bo Bennett

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@edgarblythe,

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Volumes, spendi.

Examples please ed?

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@spendius,

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
- Theodore Dreiser

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@spendius,

Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee, The Prince and the Pauper, Joan of Arc, Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi.

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

Volumes, spendi.

Amen!

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee, The Prince and the Pauper, Joan of Arc, Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi.

And 1601...especially 1601!

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"History never repeats itself, man always does."
-Voltaire

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@edgarblythe,

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Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee, The Prince and the Pauper, Joan of Arc, Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi.

Those are not examples. They are titles. How you can compare such things with the two lines I quoted from Mansfield Park is a complete mystery to me.

What is astonishing about those titles? The two lines I quoted are truly astonishing for that time and even in our times, when the idea is ruling all our lives, it is never expressed so concisely or so honestly or so tellingly.

If you don't know why there is nothing I can do about it.

Let's have it again--

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" It was a gloomy prospect, and all she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away she should see something else."

Most of the posts on this thread partake of the principle.

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@Frank Apisa,

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Amen!

Shouting "Amen!" for a valueless assertion is right up your street. No effort required.

Give us an example of a Twain quote to match the Austen one I offered. I'm willing to be persuaded,

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@spendius,

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

mr. twain

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@Rockhead,

That's not bad Rocky. It applies to both NFL and baseball looked at superficially.

Have you seen Warhol's late self portraits?

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spendi, I recommend you peruse this thread.
http://able2know.org/topic/215490-1

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“The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized man as the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth.”
― Herman Melville, Typee/Omoo/Mardi

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@edgarblythe,

I don't quite follow the attribution to that quote, edgar. Is it from Typee, Omoo or Mardi. He can't have possibly written the same exact words in all three books, can he?

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@Lustig Andrei,

I was searching quotes from Omoo, but this is the only quote I found. I don't know which it's from.

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“It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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@edgarblythe,

Simon Pegg @simonpegg wrote:

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I don't think I'm going to be too adventurous diet wise in Shanghai. Might just pop out for a Chinese.

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