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…and [he] relies almost exclusively on one method of proof:  assertion.

Ernest Ingram,  The Unclean Sweep.

I am at payne for all that, sir!

Make it soone!

Make it soone!

Titus Oates,  The Maiden’s Missive.     (1587)

Priscilla Fanning,  Fragments From the Elizabethan Stage.

“Well, that is quite a thought Alice.  Quite a thought indeed!”

Trent Bendix,  Patricia Knows Best.

A big part of being respectable today is drawing the line between yourself and those who are not respectable.  It is about drawing lines so that others can see where you are.  It is spatial.

Winston Joyce,  Rational Agent Theory.

Some general statements are true.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

“Post facto statements about intentions are not reliable, Amelia.  We are not made that way.”

Giles Coxe-Coburn,  Belief in Insects.

1 plus 1 equals 3 (for large values of 1).

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

“The indeterminate future beckons, my dear Lydia.  You must needs approach it, and look it close in the eye.”

Samuel Wedder,  The Adventuress.      (1763)

“…and that’s where I stumbled upon the dead man.”

“Dead man?”

“Yes.”

“And only one?”

“Just one.  Yes.”

Allison Cowling,  Night of the Detective.

Yes, it appears to be a labyrinth.  But since it is only a text, it is not a labyrinth.  We cannot be truly lost in mere words.  No monster—no Minotaur— awaits us in words.  Nevertheless, thank you professor Derrida!

Octavius Kinder,  A Sustainable Unhappiness.