The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #87787   Message #1643207
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
06-Jan-06 - 10:54 PM
Thread Name: happy? – Jan 5 (old, old Christmas)
Subject: RE: happy? – Jan 5 (old, old Christmas)
Sir Walter Scott, in Ivanhoe: "Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, said the gallant Outlaw, stepping forward, "my assurances can add nothing tyo those of our sovereign, yet let me say somewhat proudly that of men who have suffered much, he hath not truer subjects than those who stand around him."
Sir Walter Scott, in Ivanhoe: "You'd laugh to see the way she makes that Guvalu gang stand around.

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield: "These, while they exist in the mind as ideas, stand around us in nature forever embodied, a present sanity to expose and cure the insanity of men."