A garland of quotations CIV

None dare stop you from buying a book!

Even though the gods themselves willed it no such good fortune could befall me.
•Homer, Odyssey.

—I don’t mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father’s house?
—To seek misfortune, was Stephen’s answer.
•Joyce, Ulysses (1922).

I soon came to a resolution of making this launch into the wide world, by repairing to London, in order to seek my fortune, a phrase which, by the bye, has ruined more adventurers of both sexes...