Source: The Enormous Room
The Beast of Property (1884)
“Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.”
Summer, § VII, p. 89
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)
Context: This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
“Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.”
“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”
Hurd takes on prison reform trust http://www.independent.co.uk/news/hurd-takes-on-prison-reform-trust-1283200.html (15 January 1997)
“Indeed your loveliness assures me of a kind and tender heart within.”
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1006–1007; Jason to Medea.
“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”
Source: Northanger Abbey
Diachronicle: Days 57–221 (winter, year 0)
Source: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (2017)
