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"Don't fish for strawberries in the bottom of the sea."
Samuel Palmer, Moral Essays on Some of the most curious and significant proverbs, LXXXII, 1710, p. 229 [odd project].
Dorothy — Raise Hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAHk0unlPFQ
"Why waste time on trifles? Greater themes arise: I sing great things: pay attention, people.
We labour hard, but virtue’s nothing if not hard: hard labour’s what my art demands.
Be patient with your rival, victory rests with you: you’ll be victor on Great Jupiter’s hill."
[Quid moror in parvis? Animus maioribus instat; Magna canam: toto pectore, vulgus, ades.
Ardua molimur, sed nulla, nisi ardua, virtus: Difficilis nostra poscitur arte labor.
Rivalem patienter habe, victoria tecum Stabit: eris magni victor in arce Iovis.]
Ovid, The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria), Book II, lines 535-540 [Isaiah 48:22].
"Would we had all such wives, that the men might go to wars with the women!"
William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 2, 1607, lines 65-66 [Domitius Enobarbus].
"Mandeville:— We had better, I think, in some degree, give way to him:
you cannot expect immediately to reform manners so long confirmed by habit."
Frederick Pilon, He Would Be a Soldier, Act III, 1786 [perhaps from his childhood surrounded with sycophants.]
Wesley clings for dear life to Isabela & Molly stabs the Arishok for her lyrium brew, thus baiting Magister Danarius.
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