Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
Source: Initiation, The Perfecting of Man (1923)
“Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised”
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William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker
c. 1910; as quoted in: Der Blick auf Fränzi und Marcella: Zwei Modelle der Brücke-Künstler Heckel, Kirchner und Pechstein, Norbert Nobis; Sprengel Museum Hannover und Stiftung Moritzburg, 2011, p 17
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From long to long in solemn sort
Slow Spondee stalks.”
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"Metrical Feet" (1806)
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“… it was the little things which tripped you up.”
Graham Greene book Brighton Rock
Brighton Rock (1938)
