“Comets encountering these precincts must be perplexed to decide between the two potentates claiming their allegiance, and perhaps on occasions pay their court to each in turns, throwing out tails, as they do so, in all sorts of anomalous and contradictory directions.”
Of the nature of any planetary system round the double star Alpha Centauri; p. 168.
The System of the Stars (1890)
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"Strictly from Hunger", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) pp. 47-48
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John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894) British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician
Cooper v. Griffin (1892), 61 L. J. Rep. Q. B. 566.
“There are circumstances under which the anomalous should be courted. Ignorance is one of them.”
Roger Zelazny book Today We Choose Faces
Part 2, Chapter 7 (p. 123)
Today We Choose Faces (1973)
“While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.”
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Part I, chapter 3.
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Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer
Source: This is Where I Leave You
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2010s, Hard Truths: Law Enforcement (2015)
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“Perhaps it may turn out a sang,
Perhaps turn out a sermon.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Stanza 1
Epistle to a Young Friend (1786)