WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 09 Nov 2026 23:20:49 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg magnificence – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Steele, Richard -- Essay (1709-10-29), The Tatler, No. 87 https://wist.info/steele-richard/86924/ https://wist.info/steele-richard/86924/#respond Mon, 09 Nov 2026 17:38:24 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=86924 I consider the soul of man as the ruin of a glorious pile of buildings; where, amidst great heaps of rubbish, you meet with noble fragments of sculpture, broken pillars and obelisks, and a magnificence in confusion.

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Richard Steele (1672–1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1709-10-29), The Tatler, No. 87 ]]> https://wist.info/steele-richard/86924/feed/ 0 86924 Bengis, Ingrid -- “Monroe According to Mailer: One Legend Feeds on Another,” Ms. (1973-10) https://wist.info/bengis-ingrid/61121/ https://wist.info/bengis-ingrid/61121/#respond Fri, 09 Jun 2023 16:27:19 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=61121 There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.


Ingrid Bengis (1944–2017) American writer, business person
“Monroe According to Mailer: One Legend Feeds on Another,” Ms. (1973-10)

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