“Apt alliteration's artful aid.”
The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral (1763), line 86
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"Music in America", Harper's Monthly Magazine, February 1895. http://web.archive.org/20050103002435/homepage.mac.com/rswinter/DirectTestimony/Pages/129.html

The Waiting Maid; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

"Would you like to see a little of it?" said the Mock Turtle. (3 April 2010)
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2010
Context: Could anything be more inimical to art than a fear of emotion, or a fear of "excessive" emotion, or a reluctance to express emotion around others? No, of course not. Art can even best the weights of utter fucking ignorance and totalitarian repression, but it cannot survive emotional constipation.
I want a T-shirt that says, "Art is Emo." We live in an age where people are more apt to believe a thing if they read it on a T-shirt.

Source: 1910s, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), ch. 1.

Source: Mary, the Mother of Jesus: An Essay (1912), Ch. II. "Mary in the Scriptures", pp. 18, 21

Jeventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age (1870) p. 289. https://archive.org/stream/juventusmundigod00glad_1#page/288/mode/2up
1870s

“When God gives you AIDS — and God does give you AIDS — make lemon-AIDS!”
Jesus Is Magic (2005)

“[holds up an egg] This is AIDS. AIDS is as real as an egg.”
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