"Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!"

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Source : Christopher Smart (1791). “The poems, of the late Christopher Smart, ... Consisting of his prize poems, odes, sonnets, and fables, Latin and English translations; ...”, p.16

Christopher Smart

#Frogs Quotes #Digestion Quotes

“In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular: In proportion as the manners, customs, and amusements of a nation are cruel and barbarous, the regulations of its penal code will be severe. In proportion as men delight in battles, bullfights, and combats of gladiators, will they punish by hanging, burning, and the rack.”
“If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.”
“Behind every great woman is a great behind!”

Source : Interview with Caps, www.retrojunk.com.
“Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.”
“Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.”
“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”
“So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.”
“People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.”

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