American Consequences - September 2017

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

These United States furnish the greatest market for intellectual green fruit of all the places in the world. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy! Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

"It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'." Mrs. Poyser, a worthy farmwife in George Eliot's Adam Bede

There is no steady unretracting progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause. Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come? William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part I

"New lamps for old!" In the Arab folk tale, famous cry of the wicked sorcerer disguised as a street vendor and trying to swindle Aladdin

Here's a good rule of thumb: Too clever is too dumb. Ogden Nash, "Reflections on Ingenuity"

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