“Well,” he said. “Strange roads have strange guides. Let’s go on.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 6, "Lorbanery" (Ged)
“Let us be very strange and well-bred:
Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;
And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.”
Act IV, scene v
The Way of the World (1700)
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Jun Hong Lu (1959) Australian Buddhist leader
Introduction to Master Jun Hong Lu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFb0VTidKtU&feature=youtu.be&list=PLU6NSq1Oq8pxTDav8m7__9IVbfqlTPB4C&t=91, YouTube, 2015 <br class="br">Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door
“He was able to read and write like a well bred man.”
Dominicus Corea (1565–1596) King of Kotte and Sitawaka
De Queyroz, the great Portuguese historian writing about Dominicus Corea - The Conquest of Ceylon (Volumes 1-6) By Fr. Fernao de Queyroz, tr. Fr. S. G. Perera, Ceylon Government Press, (1930)
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Magna Moralia XI, p. 156.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)
“Well, let us conquer as we may, so that God be on our side.”
James Branch Cabell book Figures of Earth
Manuel, in Ch. XXXII : The Redemption of Poictesme
Figures of Earth (1921)
Context: Manuel gave it up, and shrugged. Well, let us conquer as we may, so that God be on our side.
Miramon replied: "Never fear! He shall be, in every shape and attribute."
“A moral, sensible, and well-bred man
Will not affront me, and no other can.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Source: Conversation (1782), Line 193.
“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Notes from Underground
Part 1, Chapter 9 (page 32)
Notes from Underground (1864)
Context: To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist
Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.
The Education of Women (1719)
Percy Addleshaw (1866–1916) English journalist
Travellers (1895).
