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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Even God cannot change the past." - "Aristotle's Nicomachaen Ethics", Agathon.
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"History is the essence of innumerable biographies." - "On History", Thomas Carlyle.
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art." - "The Victorian Age", W.R. Inge.
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"Such and so various are the tastes of men." - "The pleasures of imagination", Mark Akenside.
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt." - "Nature - Notes", Madison Julius Cawein.
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries." "Le Discours de la Méthode", René Descartes.
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season I received nor rhyme nor reason." - "Lines on his promised pension", Edmund Spenser.
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"I hope I don't intrude." - "Paul Pry I", John Poole.
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"Every artist writes his own autobiography." - "The New Spirit", Henry Havelock Ellis.
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"The good old times - All times when old are good - Are gone." - "The Age of Bronze", Lord Byron.
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
"The universe is not hostile, not yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent." - "Sensible Man's View of Religion", J. H. Holmes
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
"Still longed for, never seen." - "To the Cuckoo", Wordsworth
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
"For all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: It might have been." - "Maud Muller", John Greenleaf Whittier
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"Not die here in rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole." - "Letter to Bolingbrooke, 21 of March of 1729", Jonathan Swift
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"We can scarcely hate anyone that we know." - "Why distant objects please", William Hazlitt
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"Now I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess." - "Evalina, Letter 20", Fanny Burney
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"It is one of the incidents of the profession." - Umberto I (After an attempt on his life)
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"Something attempted, something done Has earned a night's repose." - "The village blacksmith", H.W. Longfellow
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"A good book is the best of friends today and for ever." - "Proverbial Philosophy", Martin Tupper
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"And so to bed." - "Diary, April 20th, 1660", Samuel Pepys
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought." - "Friends in council", Sir Arthur Helps
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"She had resolved, as she herself had said often, to put away childish things, and now she pined for those things which she so put from her." - "The Small House At Allington", Anthony Trollope
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." - "Afterthoughts", Logan Pearshall Smith
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"A man not old, but mellow, like good wine." - "Ulysses III", Stephen Phillips
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"But I grow old always learning many things." - "Plutarch, Solon. XXXI", Solon
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"There's a good time coming, boys." - "The good time coming", Charles Mackay
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"Ay, now the plot thickens very much upon us." - "The Rehearsal", George Villiers
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"And peace proclaims olives of endless age." - "Sonnet 107", Shakespeare
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it." - "On Prejudice", William Hazlitt
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Their words @theirwords.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"But the waiting time, my brothers Is the hardest time of all." - "Psalm of Life", Sarah Doudney
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