"Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight."

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Source : Edmund Smith (1719). “The Works of ...: Containing I. Phaedra and Hippolitus, II. A Poem on Thr Death of Mr. Philips, III. Bodleian Speech, IV Pocochius, To which is Prefix'd”, p.9

Edmund Smith

#Life Quotes #Sight Quotes #Victim Quotes

“Every day, I wake up and I'm like, "Oh, I'm the star of my own show that has my name in it and I get to write it and hire actors that I've loved for such a long time!" It's amazing!”
“I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth”
“It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good.”
“You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!”
“I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.”
“So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their employment patters and through their influence in the political arena, recognition of defined ethnic groups, seeking to link them to specific allocated roles in the labor-force, with different levels of real remuneration for their work. Ethnicity created a cultural crust which consolidated the patterns of semi-proletarian household structures.”
“It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still be found men, who object to the new constitution for deviating from a principle which has been found the bane of the old.”
“The more thankful you are, the happier you will be!”

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