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The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
epub |eng | 2014-05-25 | Author:Oscar Wilde

Eloquence is a beautiful thing, but rhetoric ruins many a critic … —“Ben Jonson” … I think that the first duty of an art critic is to hold his tongue ...
( Category: European May 25,2019 )
A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran
epub |eng | 2012-03-23 | Author:E. M. Cioran

Conditions of Tragedy If Jesus had ended his career upon the Cross, if he had not been committed to resuscitation—-what a splendid tragic hero! His divine aspect has cost literature ...
( Category: Renaissance March 23,2019 )
The Tibetan Book of Everyday Wisdom: A Thousand Years of Sage Advice by Newman Beth Thupten Jinpa
epub |eng | | Author:Newman, Beth,Thupten, Jinpa

The colophon indicates five particulars: the text that was composed, the ones who requested for it, the author, the place of composition, and the scribe. Once again, the author prays ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 14,2019 )
Coulter, Ann - If Democrats had any brains by Coulter Ann
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Coulter, Ann [Coulter, Ann]

COLMES: Here's my concern: Are they going to be able to have warning signs [at the border] in Spanish, like "Deep Water," or, you know, "No Lifeguard on Duty," or ...
( Category: Politics & Government February 13,2019 )
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations by Mark Twain
epub |por | 1987-08-31 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. More Maxims of Mark, Merle Johnson, ed. There is no sadder ...
( Category: United States February 5,2019 )
It Always Seems Impossible Until It's Done. by Kathryn Petras
epub |eng | 2014-02-01 | Author:Kathryn Petras

About the Authors Kathryn and Ross Petras, sister-and-brother quotations connoisseurs, have published numerous collections of their finds. Kathryn Petras lives in Seattle; Ross Petras lives in Toronto. More Unexpected Words ...
( Category: Personal Transformation February 2,2019 )
Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, Volume 2 by Alexander Schmidt
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Schmidt

T T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet: LLL V, 1, 24. Tw. II, 5, 96. 99. Ant. IV, 7, 7. Ta, in wo ’t ta, corrupted from wouldst ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 11,2018 )
Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary by Alexander Schmidt
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Schmidt

F. Fa, the fourth note in the gamut: ut, re, sol, la, mi, fa, LLL IV, 2, 102. C fa ut, Shr. III, 1, 76. fa, sol, la, mi, Lr. ...
( Category: Quotations December 11,2018 )
Sterling's Gold by Roger Sterling
epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Roger Sterling

Roger Sterling Acknowledgments The following people need to be acknowledged for their significant contributions to either making this book, or the character of myself, Roger Sterling, come to life. Matthew ...
( Category: Humor December 9,2018 )
Rhapsody in Green by Beverley Nichols
epub |eng | 2009-12-08 | Author:Beverley Nichols

FACING THE ELEMENTS THE GARDENER’S GREATEST enemy is wind. Not frost, nor snow, nor drought, nor even the sullen implacability of the soil, but wind—the wind that claws and rips ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides December 9,2018 )
I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha! by Bodhipaksa
epub |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Bodhipaksa

Whatever living beings there may be, Whether fearful or self-possessed, Without exception, Whether large, great, middling, or small, Whether tiny or substantial, Whether seen or unseen, Whether living near or ...
( Category: Humor November 27,2018 )
The Patch by John McPhee
epub |eng | | Author:John McPhee

IN THE LONG DRY VALLEYS of eastern Nevada, where rain-hadow rain falls in desert rations and the silence is so deep it rings, water has been in storage for about ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 14,2018 )
Anathemas and Admirations by Cioran E. M
epub |eng | 1986-01-12 | Author:Cioran, E. M. [Cioran, E. M.]

There is a certain shamelessness in dying. Indeed, there is something indecent about death. This aspect, understandably, is the last that comes to mind. I have wasted hour after hour ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 11,2018 )
Oxymoronica by Dr. Mardy Grothe
epub |eng | 2018-10-19 | Author:Dr. Mardy Grothe

chapter seven OXYMORONICA ON STAGE & SCREEN D uring the eighteenth century, David Garrick was England’s greatest actor. A man of enormous talent onstage, he could be imperious and full ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar October 20,2018 )
ATTENTION by Joshua Cohen
epub |eng | 2018-08-13 | Author:Joshua Cohen

“Inadvertence”: She is referring to Turing’s fussing with cyanide. Yes? No? Or Undecidable? HER OWN ASYLUM ON ANNA KAVAN ANNA KAVAN, A BRITISH FICTION writer of genius, first appeared as ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 11,2018 )

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