“104. Leave jesting while it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator
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Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows
Rat telling Mole of the words he hears in the reeds, Ch. 7
The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Context: Now it is turning into words again — faint but clear — Lest the awe should dwell — And turn your frolic to fret — You shall look on my power at the helping hour — But then you shall forget! Now the reeds take it up — forget, forget, they sigh, and it dies away in a rustle and a whisper. Then the voice returns —
'Lest limbs be reddened and rent — I spring the trap that is set — As I loose the snare you may glimpse me there — For surely you shall forget! Row nearer, Mole, nearer to the reeds! It is hard to catch, and grows each minute fainter.
'Helper and healer, I cheer — Small waifs in the woodland wet — Strays I find in it, wounds I bind in it — Bidding them all forget!
Herbert Giles book A History of Chinese Literature
"Wit and Humour", p. 430
A History of Chinese Literature (1901)
“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
Ibn Battuta (1304–1377) Moroccan explorer
Source: The Travels of Ibn Battutah
“FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.”
Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer
“If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.”
Jeanette Winterson book The Passion
Source: The Passion