William Julius Mickle quotes
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“For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.”
-- William Julius MickleSource : 'There's nae Luck about the House'
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“His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs.”
-- William Julius MickleSource : William Julius Mickle, Tobias George Smollett (1822). “The Poems of Mickle, and Smollett”, p.93
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“The present moment is our ain, The neist we never saw!”
-- William Julius MickleSource : William Julius Mickle, Tobias George Smollett (1822). “The Poems of Mickle, and Smollett”, p.93
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“Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!”
-- William Julius MickleSource : Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1778). “The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem”, p.53
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“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”
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“I think when I bought a house, that's when I thought I felt like that's a grown up thing to do.”
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Source : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".
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“In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.”
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“For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.”
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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
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