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I Am One Who Finds Within Me A Nobility That Spurns The Idle Pratings Of The Grea
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I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings
of the great, and their mean boast of what their fathers were, while
they themselves are fools effeminate, the scorn of all who know the
worth of mind and virtue.
-- Percival
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Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, "The Biography of a Dead Cow", is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship....
The little mind who loves itself, will write and think with the vulga
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To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be, not a virtue, but the groundwork of a virtue.
-- Johnso...
An idle mind is worth two in the bush.
Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!
What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea...
Any father who thinks he's all important should remind himself that this country honors fathers only one day a year while pickles get a whole week.