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My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know!
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
Ay! Louder, Vengeance, much louder, and still she will scarcely hear thee. Louder yet, Vengeance, with a little oath or so added, and yet it will hardly bring her. Send other women up and down to seek her, lingering somewhere; and yet, although the messengers have done dread deeds, it is questionable whether of their own wills they will go far enou
... See moreCharles Dickens • A Tale of Two Cities
De Mulieribus Claris
A little jackdaw, who dresses himself up in fine feathers as a grand peacock, is rejected as an imposter by the peacocks and rejected again, this time as a bird getting above himself, when he tries to return to the jackdaws. It is the Trimalchio story in a very different guise and from a very different point of view.
Mary Beard • SPQR
They hang the man and flog the women
who steals the goose from off the common,
but leave the greater villain loose
who steals the common from the goose.
The law locks up the man and woman
who steals the goose from off the common.
The goose will still a common lack
until it goes and steals it back.
