Source : Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.179
Abraham Cowley“Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.”
Source : Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”
“Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.”
Source : Neal Cassady (2005). “Collected Letters, 1944-1967”, p.220, Penguin
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