The Beech Tree's Petition http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/41515, st. 1
Woodman, spare that Tree! (1830), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Lamenting on the death of the famously virtuous former N.Y. Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson in 1925. Quoted in Christopher Hodge Evans, William R. Herzog, <i>The Faith of Fifty Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture</i> (Westminster John Knox Press, 2002, ISBN 0664223052), p. 77. http://books.google.com/books?id=nfk_O47SFGwC&pg=PA77&dq=%22like+Matty+so+soon
The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972), tr. A. M. Sheridan Smith (New York: Pantheon)
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book I, On Production, Chapter IV, p. 76
Letter to Ellen Hussey (5 April 1849), published in The Letters of Charlotte Brontë : With a Selection of Letters by Family and Friends (1995), edited by Margaret Smith, Vol. II: 1848–1851, p. 195
Context: I have no horror of death: if I thought it inevitable I think I could quietly resign myself to the prospect... But I wish it would please God to spare me not only for Papa's and Charlotte's sakes, but because I long to do some good in the world before I leave it. I have many schemes in my head for future practice – humble and limited indeed – but still I should not like them all to come to nothing, and myself to have lived to so little purpose. But God's will be done.
Canto II, X
The Fate of Adelaide (1821)
“Oh, you are so spot on. I absolutely agree with you.”
In response to an assertion by a caller on C-SPAN's show Washington Journal on February 24, 2008, that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would "immediately" solve America's oil problems and that America's grid electricity originates in Venezuelan and Middle Eastern oil.
[Sarah Palin, http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=203214-2, Washington Journal, C-SPAN, February 24, 2008, 2008-09-04]
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