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Mellor, David
1949–
1949–
1
I do believe the popular press is drinking in the last chance saloon.
I do believe the popular press is drinking in the last chance saloon.
interview on
Hard News
(Channel 4), 21 December 1989
Melville, Herman
1819–91
1819–91
1
Call me Ishmael.
A whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale…from hell's heart I stab at thee.
Call me Ishmael.
Moby Dick
(1851), opening words
A whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Moby Dick
(1851) ch. 24
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale…from hell's heart I stab at thee.
Moby Dick
(1851) ch. 135
Menander
342
bc
342
bc
1
Whom the gods love dies young.
Whom the gods love dies young.
Dis Exapaton
fragment 4, in F. H. Sandbach (ed.)
Menandri Reliquiae Selectae
(1990)
Mencken, H. L.
1880–1956
1880–1956
1
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Chrestomathy
(1949) ch. 30
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
A Little Book in C major
(1916)
Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
A Little Book in C major
(1916)
Mendelssohn, Moses
1729–86
1729–86
1
To put it in one word: I believe that Judaism knows nothing of revealed religion, in the sense in which this is understood by Christians. The Israelites possess divine legislation.
To put it in one word: I believe that Judaism knows nothing of revealed religion, in the sense in which this is understood by Christians. The Israelites possess divine legislation.
Jerusalem
(1783) pt. 2
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