“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
Lord Goring, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Those who know only scriptures know nothing. To know is to be. I know what I am talking about; it is not from reading, or hearsay.”
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Source: "I am That." P.51.
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Source: Memnoch the Devil