“The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.”
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“Then why did we not bring the book?” asked my husband. “Well, it weighs just over a stone,” I said. “I weighed it once on the bathroom scales.” “Why did you do that?” asked my husband. “Because it occurred to me one day that I knew the weight of nothing except myself and joints of meat,” I said, “and I just picked that up to give me an idea of something else.”
― Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
― Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
“I say, gentleman, hadn’t we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to the winds, simply to send these logarithms to the devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will!”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
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