Part Four, Ch. V (pp. 237-238)
Source: The Good Soldier (1915)
Context: It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me.
Is there any terrestrial paradise where, amidst the whispering of the olive-leaves, people can be with whom they like and have what they like and take their ease in shadows and in coolness? Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people — like the lives of the Ashburnhams, of the Dowells, of the Ruffords — broken, tumultuous, agonized, and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies? Who the devil knows?
Sunisa Lee (2003) American artistic gymnast; first Hmong American Olympic gold medalist
"Sunisa Lee Says She's 'Going to Delete Twitter' So She Can Focus on Preparing for Beam Final" in People (1 August 2021) https://people.com/sports/tokyo-olympics-sunisa-lee-going-to-delete-twitter-focus-preparing-beam-final/
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. VI.
Stephen L. Carter book The Emperor of Ocean Park
Karl, Ch. 26, Sam Loyd's Challenge
The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002)
Spraycan Art by Henry Chalfant & James Prigoff ISBN 0-500-27469-X
Edie Sedgwick (1943–1971) Socialite, actress, model
Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)
“Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.”
John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law
Humility.
Table Talk (1689)
W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
The disagreeable Man (from Princess Ida).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I can't explain why I shine and no one else shines. I think everybody shines in different things.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
1990s, Interview on the set of Gang Related (1996)
