For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

 

[Marshy]

 

[the GOAT]

Plato by a goodly similitude declareth, why wise men refrain to meddle in the commonwealth. For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

 

[Marshy]

 

[the GOAT]

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

 

[Marshy]

 

[the GOAT]

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can ... weave it into a rope to hang a man.

 

[Marshy]

 

[the GOAT]

Byron and Shelley and Keats Were a trio of lyrical treats.

 

[the GOAT]

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

 

[Marshy]

Still hot

 

[the GOAT]

Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon.

 

[the GOAT]

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

 

[the GOAT]

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

 

[Marshy]

 

[the GOAT]

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

 

[Marshy]

 

[wildroamer]

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Most sensible post of the thread!

 

[Marshy]

 

[Marshy]

Oops, I thought this was goats and hoes thread.