"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."
Monday, September 16, 2013
Some of us cherish our witticisms 50 years or more--How Wm Wms put Lieut Fears in his Place
William Williams of Perry Co. Kentucky, in his 1834 pension application.
A hat tip to the incomparably generous transcriber Will Graves.
William Williams of Perry Co. Kentucky, in his 1834 pension application.
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