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Rhodes Volume I (1986)
“Fill all the glasses there, for why
Should every creature drink but I?
Why, man of morals, tell me why?”
From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Good question, Mama. Good question.
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Causæ Bibendi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). These lines are a poetic translation of a Latin epigram (erroneously ascribed to Henry Aldrich in the Biographia Britannica, second edition, vol. i. p. 131), which Menage and De la Monnoye attribute to Père Sirmond:
Si bene commemini, causæ sunt quinque bibendi:
Hospitis adventus; præsens sitis atque futura;
Et vini bonitas, et quælibet altera causa.
Menagiana, vol. i. p. 172.
“Why should man be afraid to think, and why should he fear to express his thoughts?”
Heretics and Heresies (1874)
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Is it possible that an infinite Deity is unwilling that a man should investigate the phenomena by which he is surrounded? Is it possible that a god delights in threatening and terrifying men? What glory, what honor and renown a god must win on such a field! The ocean raving at a drop; a star envious of a candle; the sun jealous of a fire-fly.
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