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...folly often mistook itself for wisdom, ignorance gave itself airs of knowledge, and selfishness, turning its eyes upward, called itself religion.
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W.D. Clarke
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The fact that he read nothing at all now, &that his mind seemed absorbed in the commonest matters, was doubtless due to his having exhausted the resources of erudition earlier in life. It is true he was not spoken of in terms of high respect [but he] was like the dents and disfigurements in an old family tankard, which no one would like to part with for a smart new piece of plate fresh from Birmingham.
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W.D. Clarke
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Mr Farquhar, though not a parishioner of Mr Ely’s, was one of his warmest admirers, and thought he would make an unexceptionable son-in-law, in spite of his being of no particular ‘family.’ Mr Farquhar was susceptible on the point of ‘blood,’ – his own circulating fluid, which animated a short and somewhat flabby person, being, he considered, of very superior quality.
— Sep 02, 2026 12:21PM
W.D. Clarke
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This allusion to brandy-and-water suggested to Miss Gibbs the introduction of the liquor decanters, now that the tea was cleared away; for in bucolic society five-and-twenty years ago, the human animal of the male sex was understood to be perpetually athirst, and ‘something to drink’ was as necessary a ‘condition of thought’* as Time and Space.
*Immanuel Kant
— Aug 30, 2026 12:00PM
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W.D. Clarke
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As for the clergyman, Mr Gilfil, an excellent old gentleman, who smoked very long pipes and preached very short sermons, I must not speak of him, or I might be tempted to tell the story of his life, which had its little romance, as most lives have between the ages of teetotum and tobacco.
— Aug 29, 2026 07:56AM