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10-19-2008, 09:32 PM
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Not again
"That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown. "
— Christopher Marlowe D'oh! 
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10-24-2008, 06:34 AM
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Must be true
"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. "
— Samuel Johnson or "The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting." — Amanda Cross Last edited by smoochie222 : 10-24-2008 at 07:01 AM.
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10-25-2008, 11:45 PM
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Not again
"It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. "
— George Washington D'oh!
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joseph k, ne'er-do-well extraordinaire Last edited by bansaisequoia : 10-25-2008 at 11:55 PM.
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10-25-2008, 11:50 PM
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Washington quote
Gambling - or so it would appear from a quick googling.
I agree that it does not seem fair to omit that however. I'd prefer if the quote were: "Gambling ... is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief."
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#15
10-26-2008, 09:26 PM
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Not again
"They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. "
— Charles Dickens I'm dying to know who he's referring to, but I'm not able to find it by a quick internet search. D'oh!
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joseph k, ne'er-do-well extraordinaire
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10-27-2008, 03:04 AM
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Newspapers and publishers
Is it not a horrible thing that scoundrel-booksellers should grow rich here [in America] from publishing books, the authors of which do not reap one farthing from their issue, by scores of thousands? And that every vile, blackguard, and detestable newspaper,--so filthy and so bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house, for a water-closet doormat--should be able to publish those same writings, side by side, cheek by jowl, with the coarsest and obscene companions. . . .? I vow before High Heaven that my blood so boils at these enormities, that when I speak about them, I seem to grow twenty feet high, and to swell out in proportion. "Robbers that ye are"--I think to myself, when I get upon my legs--"Here goes!"
Last edited by maradnu : 10-27-2008 at 03:05 AM. Reason: yes
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#17
10-27-2008, 03:35 AM
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written by
Juliet John????
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10-27-2008, 05:21 AM
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Juliet John
Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist: A Sourcebook
by Juliet John Softcover, Routledge, ISBN 0415255309 (0-415-25530-9) Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels, 1830-1847 by Juliet John, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William Harrison Ainsworth Hardcover, Routledge, ISBN 0415143837 (0-415-14383-7) Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture by Juliet John Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, ISBN 0199261377 (0-19-926137-7) Rereading Victorian Fiction by Alice Jenkins, Juliet John Softcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited, ISBN 0333973852 (0-333-97385-2) Rethinking Victorian Culture by Juliet John, Alice Jenkins Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0312226799 (0-312-22679-9)
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#19
10-27-2008, 07:16 PM
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I'm a bad boy
Thanks for all the info, maradnu. You make me feel like a slacker for not digging a little further on the net.
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#20
10-28-2008, 01:56 AM
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Bad boy?
Not necessarily.
I enjoy googling all manner of things, for all manner of reasons, or no reason at all. (As ferrym found out the one time.) At one point, the Tampa paper had a quiz of sorts. They'd have a line from a song, book, or movie. I was one of a hand full of people who went over a year without missing any - and some were tough.
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