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Quote of the day :-from ‘Isaac Casaubon’ (1875) ch. 10 by Mark Pattison
In research the horizon recedes as we advance, and is no nearer at sixty than it was at twenty. As the power of endurance weakens with age, the urgency of the p
blog.naver.com · 2026.08.09
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Quote of the day :-from ‘Crotchet Castle’ (1831) ch. 17 by Thomas Love Peacock
The march of mind has marched in through my back parlour shutters, and out again with my silver spoons, in the dead of night. The policeman, who was sent down t
blog.naver.com · 2026.08.14
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Quote of the day :-from ‘Crotchet Castle’ (1831) ch. 9 by Thomas Love Peacock
A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything. trace and rewrite - from ‘Crotchet Castle’ (1831) ch. 9 by Thomas Love Peacock 178
blog.naver.com · 2026.08.13
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Quote of the day :-from ‘Crotchet Castle’ (1831) ch. 7 by Thomas Love Peacock
Ancient sculpture is the true school of modesty. But where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism,
blog.naver.com · 2026.08.12
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Quote of the day :-from ‘The County Ball’ by Coventry Patmore, 3rd
Ah, none but I discerned her looks, When in the throng she passed me by, For love is like a ghost, and brooks Only the chosen seer’s eye. trace and rewrite - fr
blog.naver.com · 2026.07.31
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Quote of the day :-from ‘The County Ball’ by Coventry Patmore, 2nd
Her ball-dress seemed a breathing mist, From the fair form exhaled and shed, Raised in the dance with arm and wrist All warmth and light unbraceleted. trace and
blog.naver.com · 2026.07.30
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Quote of the day :-from ‘Pensèes’ (1670) no. 553 by Blaise Pascal
Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m’avais trouvè. Comfort yourself, you would not seek me if you had not found me. trace and rewrite - from ‘Pensèe
blog.naver.com · 2026.07.19
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Quote of the day :-from ‘Pensèes’ (1670) no. 347 by Blaise Pascal
L’homme n’est qu’un roseau, le plus faible de la nature; mais c’est un roseau pensant. Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking ree
blog.naver.com · 2026.07.18
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Quote of the day :-from ‘Pensèes’ (1670) no. 277 by Blaise Pascal
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. trace and rewrite - from ‘Pensèes’ (1670) no. 27
blog.naver.com · 2026.07.17
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Quote of the day :-from ‘Pensèes’ (1670) no. 210 by Blaise Pascal
Le dernier acte est sanglant, quelque belle que soit la comèdie en tout le reste. The last act is bloody, however charming the rest of the play may be. trace an
blog.naver.com · 2026.07.16
