"There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom...."

-- Bergen Evans

“Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.”
“If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his support, and nothing more; it is evident that all of them being equal, no one would work for another. Neither would any of them possess wherewith to pay another for his labour, for each person having only such a quantity of land as was necessary to produce a subsistence, would consume all he should gather, and would not have any thing to give in exchange for the labour of others.”

Source : "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 1), 1766.
“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”
“People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.”
“Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.”
“Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there â€“ the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.”
“The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.”

Source : Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.128, David R. Godine Publisher
“Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.”

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