Richard Francis
Richard Francis
Richard Franciswas an English cricketer who played for Hampshire in the last quarter of the 18th century when its matches were organised by the Hambledon Club. He is known to have been a Surrey man by birth and he had played for Surrey teams before moving to Hampshire. He made 47 known appearances in significant or first-class matches from 1773 until 1793. It is possible he had a brother who made one appearance for Hampshire in 1775...
book son thinking
I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like to have the most enormous library, and I'd like to think that I could read those books forever and forever, and die unlamented, unknown, unsung, unhonored - and packed with information.
wise witty art
[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.
life clue reason
Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue...
book home
Home is where the books are
men fit he-man
The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle.
believe light lamps
For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.
doctors
When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?
thee manhood
Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
three moral portions
All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.
knowledge knows
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
art past done
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
fun men shining
Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?
ambition liberty slave
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
faith believe mirrors
All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.