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The world's as ugly, ay, as Sin,—
And almost as delightful.


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"Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears
Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;
The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare
Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.


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I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large and increasing sale of his works.

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Lightly I sped when hope was high
And youth beguiled the chase,—
I follow, follow still: But I
Shall never see her face.


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And this was your Cradle? Why, surely, my Jenny,
Such cozy dimensions go clearly to show
You were an exceedingly small pickaninny,
Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago.


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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Frederick Locker-Lampson

Frederick Locker-Lampson

Born: 1821
Died: 1895 (aged 74)
Bio: Frederick Locker-Lampson was an English man of letters, bibliophile and poet.
Known for:
  1. London lyrics (1857)
  2. London Rhymes (1882)
  3. Patchwork (1879)
  4. Lyra elegantiarum (1867)
  5. An appendix to the Rowfant library

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