"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.---------
Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
First Cousin 4 Times Removed Thomas W. Bell's Literary Ambition in the Republic of Texas, 1841
25 July 1841 I do not now intend to quit study until I shall obtain [attain?] at least a respectable standing in the literary world.
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