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Quotations and Maxims From Noted Figures and Obituaries
A page of aphorisms from Butler Emerson Balzac and others, interlaced with reflections on virtue, gender, and society. It closes with a note on Brompton Cemetery in London and a Kentucky mushroom farm claim. Notable names include Saint Beuve, George Eliot, Cicero, Dumas, Rousseau, Holmes, and De Lespinasse, plus a memorial for Adelaide Neilsan and Harry Beckett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop Butler
Antonios
Emerson
Balzac
Hamilton
Antonius
Zoroaster
Javensi
Arnold
Tennyson
Sainte Beave
Burke
Anon
George Eliot
Cicero
Alexander Dumas
George Herbert
Shakspeare
Montaigne
George Hirot
Pascal
Madam de Rieux
de Goncourt
J. W. Riley
Chamford
A. Karr
Lingree
Carden
la Brayere
Mery
O. W. Holmes
S. Dubay
J. J. Rousseau
Mademoisselle de Lespinasse
Brompton
London
Adelaide Neilsan
Harry Beckett