This world is but canvass to our imaginations.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, “Wednesday” (1849)
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No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
Murray Kempton (1917–1997) American journalist.
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The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]
“The Incomparable Buzz-Saw,” The Smart Set (May 1919)
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I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried — “La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!”
