A garland of quotations LXIX
The world was full of poetry and I was enjoying myself.
•Isaac Asimov, “Can You Prove It?” (1981).
The shepherd, who makes so pretty a picture carrying home the lamb, is only carrying it home for dinner.
•Robert Louis Stevenson, “Will o’ the Mill” (1878).
As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
•Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1773).
In the worst night of my waking fever, I remember well ...
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