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  • maradnu
    Premium Member
    • Feb 2008
    • 296

    #16
    Newspapers and publishers

    Is it not a horrible thing that scoundrel-booksellers should grow rich here [in America] from publishing books, the authors of which do not reap one farthing from their issue, by scores of thousands? And that every vile, blackguard, and detestable newspaper,--so filthy and so bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house, for a water-closet doormat--should be able to publish those same writings, side by side, cheek by jowl, with the coarsest and obscene companions. . . .? I vow before High Heaven that my blood so boils at these enormities, that when I speak about them, I seem to grow twenty feet high, and to swell out in proportion. "Robbers that ye are"--I think to myself, when I get upon my legs--"Here goes!"

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    • smoochie222

      #17
      written by

      Juliet John????

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      • maradnu
        Premium Member
        • Feb 2008
        • 296

        #18
        Juliet John

        Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist: A Sourcebook
        by Juliet John
        Softcover, Routledge, ISBN 0415255309 (0-415-25530-9)

        Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels, 1830-1847
        by Juliet John, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William Harrison Ainsworth
        Hardcover, Routledge, ISBN 0415143837 (0-415-14383-7)

        Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture
        by Juliet John
        Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, ISBN 0199261377 (0-19-926137-7)

        Rereading Victorian Fiction
        by Alice Jenkins, Juliet John
        Softcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited, ISBN 0333973852 (0-333-97385-2)

        Rethinking Victorian Culture
        by Juliet John, Alice Jenkins
        Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0312226799 (0-312-22679-9)

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        • bansaisequoia

          #19
          I'm a bad boy

          Thanks for all the info, maradnu. You make me feel like a slacker for not digging a little further on the net.

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          • maradnu
            Premium Member
            • Feb 2008
            • 296

            #20
            Bad boy?

            Not necessarily.

            I enjoy googling all manner of things, for all manner of reasons, or no reason at all. (As ferrym found out the one time.)

            At one point, the Tampa paper had a quiz of sorts. They'd have a line from a song, book, or movie. I was one of a hand full of people who went over a year without missing any - and some were tough.

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            • cayot
              Member
              • Feb 2019
              • 0

              #21
              And another...

              "A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. "
              โ€” Josh Billings

              Should read:

              "Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. "
              โ€” Josh Billings

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              • maradnu
                Premium Member
                • Feb 2008
                • 296

                #22
                Yet another

                The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce

                should be:

                Quoting: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce

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                • opallady
                  Premium Member
                  • Feb 2008
                  • 253

                  #23
                  How about an incomplete attribution? "On the edge of destiny you must test your strength." was attributed to Billy. Billy who? Billy Bishop, if you do a simple web search.

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                  • bansaisequoia

                    #24
                    Yet another

                    "The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind."
                    โ€” A. E. Houseman


                    D'oh!

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                    • bansaisequoia

                      #25
                      Yet another

                      "Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater. "
                      โ€” Maya Angelou



                      D'oh!

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                      • maradnu
                        Premium Member
                        • Feb 2008
                        • 296

                        #26
                        Not incomplete ,but

                        We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

                        What is the purpose of posting quotes that dump on anyone's religion? I really don't care whether it's Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, or whatever.

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                        • smoochie222

                          #27
                          What if

                          it's the truth?

                          Then again, you can opt for showing no offensive quotes, however what's offensive to you doesn't seem to be offensive to me.

                          Rant on

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                          • bansaisequoia

                            #28
                            I hate to admit...

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                            What is the purpose of posting quotes that dump on anyone's religion? I really don't care whether it's Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, or whatever.
                            While I would never "dump" on any of the religions you've mentioned, I wouldn't find it too offensive if there was a quote denouncing Satanism. Admittedly, this is perhaps not a major religion, but how about the Church of Scientology? They even have an IRS exemption these days. I have to admit I wouldn't find a quote denouncing Scientology offensive.



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                            • maradnu
                              Premium Member
                              • Feb 2008
                              • 296

                              #29
                              Incomplete quote

                              "A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. "

                              Ezra Pound was referring to Jesus Christ.

                              Not only do we miss the reference, it is also a dig at religion.

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                              • bansaisequoia

                                #30
                                Hmmm....

                                Consider, if you will, the source. A purported anti-Semite who used to consort with Mussolini and spent time in Italy during World War II as a pro-Axis propagandist on the radio. After being brought up on treason charges in the US, he pleaded insanity and spent the next 12 years in an asylum.



                                Mark it 10-stars offensive if you will. I've certainly done this to a number of quotes. Nonetheless, in my preferences, I don't ask admin to filter out offensive quotes.

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