January 2011
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Some Victorian humor
1895 About the only thing that prevents some men from telling bare-faced lies is a moustache.
1865 What is the difference between two mermaids and spring & summer? The former are two sea-daughters, the latter two sea-sons.
via Fuck yeah Victorians
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Loveletter to A City
Unwanted cash machine receipts and subway tickets rustle under my feet and I wonder when they will finally take down that scaffolding, but it has been there for so long now that the street would feel naked without it. Your peculiarly uneven sidewalks are an adventure for my feet every time I step out of the house; you catch me unawares quite often, trip me up and when I recover, I see...
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...”
– C.S. Lewis (via mandabythesea)
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Victorian Quote Tuesday - George Egerton
“He laughs and she winces; and they sit silent, and they both feel as if the earth between them is laid with infinitesimal electric threads vibrating with a common pain.”
from A Cross Line in Keynotes, first published in 1893
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Victorian Quote Special Week - John Stuart Mill 7
“But the man, and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing ´what nobody does` or of not doing ´what everybody does`, is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency. Persons require to possess a title, or some other badge of rank, or of the consideration of people of rank, to be able to indulge somewhat in the luxury of...
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Victorian Quote Special Week - John Stuart Mill 6
“But society has now fairly gotten the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.”
´On Liberty`
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Victorian Quote Special Week - John Stuart Mill 5
” The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.”
´On Liberty`
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Victorian Quote Special Week - John Stuart Mill 4
“To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.”
´On Liberty`
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Victorian Quote Special Week - John Stuart Mill 3
“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
´On Liberty`
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Victorian Quote Special Week - John Stuart Mill 2
“This, then, is the appropriate region of human liberty. It comprises, first, the inward domain of consciousness; demanding liberty of conscience, in the most comprehensive sense; liberty of thought and felling; absolute freedom of opinion and sentiment on all subjects, practical or speculative, scientific, moral or theological.”
´On Liberty`
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Victorian Quote Special Week - John Stuart Mill
I´m just reading JSM “On Liberty” and there are so many good quotes that I decided to make a week of daily quotes from this essay. Bear with me here, people! :)
” (…) the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.”
from “On Liberty”, first...
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Snoow
I still act like the kids ^^
sisterkate:
excellenteggplant:
When you were a little kid and woke up and looked out side and saw snow you would be like
But when you get older you wake up, look out the window and are like
and you go back to sleep.
This happened to me today.
Relevant for Connecticutians right now. They’re expecting anywhere from 18-24 inches of snow tonight into...
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Victorian Quote Tuesday - Ebenezer Elliot
In these days, every mother´s son or daughter
Writes verse, which no one reads except the writer
Anlthough, unink´d, the paper would be whiter,
And worth, per ream, a hare, when you have caught her.
Hundreds of unstaunch´d Shelleys daily water
Unanswering dust; a thousand Wordsworths scribble;
And twice a thousand Cornlaw rhymers dribble
Rhym´d prose, unread. Hymners of fraud and...
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