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Charles Godfrey Leland
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“Hans Breitmann gife a barty— Where ish dat barty now?”
Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hans Breitmann's Party (1871)
“They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.”
Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The brave deserve the lovely—every woman may be won.”
Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world had never been.”
Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lord! I must stop to breathe, there's something so much better and decenter and innocenter in such losing one's self in green leaves, and among bees and honeysuckles and beautiful proud-eyed girls and sunsets, and sea-shells and horses, and old walls, and storms off Mount Desert and Christkinkle, and Venus on the Half-Shell, and Cinderella, and all that, than in nine-tenths of the Duty and Business and Serious Slop and Slather which life drives us up to!”
Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Observations of Mace Sloper, Esq.", in The Knickerbocker (April 1861), p. 419