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“But there was not found a laff-mate for him.” — Country Boy | Restauratio Anglica — Green & pleasant Land! (c. 1832)

[philosophybits]

“Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid — the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

[thesquireinvictus]

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[philosophybits]

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

— Oscar Wilde, attributed in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman ed.

[petaltexturedskies]

The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.

Tennessee Williams

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[thesquireinvictus]

Men can no longer take their shirts off at the Rural Game Fair, a rule newly adopted to “deter fighting”… Standards of dress and modesty are generally closely tied to the ever changing tides of politics and mores. One is reminded of the relative conservatism of Victorian clothing. That said, the Victorians were also in weird ways not shy of nudity, and in those ways far less averse to it than modern “liberated” people are—which perhaps had something to do with a deeper division then between the sexes as well as possibly a greater nearness to agrarianism. And so again it is the agrarians, contrary to popular imagination, that set the trends, not the city folk. I’m rambling now.

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[diemelusine]

At Kensington Palace, Victoria receives the news of her accession from Lord Conyngham and the Archbishop of Canterbury (1887) by Henry Tanworth Wells. Buckingham Palace.

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[quotespile]

“I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and conventions of the young.”

— Michael Chabon, Moonglow

[tsalala]

“Nzuri, the King of Curls, known for his rare, naturally curly mane. He is one of the 7 Topi Boys in Marsh Pride.”

Taken in the Maasai Mara, Kenya Photographed by Chamith Kumarage

[tsalala]

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"Her face, ivory gold against the blurred sunset that strove through the rain,"

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (1934)

[tenderspirits-deactivated202012]

She was in a reverie of sweet remembrances.

Jane Austen, from “Mansfield Park,”

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

"…superstition lingers here…and it's supposed she's a witch. To be quite candid with you, the thing interests me a good deal. Supposing you asked me, on oath, whether I believed in witches, I should say ‘No’. But if you asked me again, on oath, whether I suspected I believed in them, I should, I think, say ‘Yes’."

– E. F. Benson, from “Gavon’s Eve,” The Room in the Tower and Other Stories (Mills & Boon, 1912)

[thesquireinvictus]

Why does it have to smell like the house is burning down every time my landlady cooks?

[thesquireinvictus]

I go out at sunset for a daily dose of red light goodness and all I get is cloud and eaten by bug

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

"And you, Ring-bearer," she said, turning to Frodo. "I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this." She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it, and rays of white light sprang from her hand. "In this phial," she said, "is caught the light of Eärendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."

– J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring