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Frederick York Powell
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“It was a soufflé of a speech, light, pleasant, digestible, and nourishing also.”
Frederick York Powell (1850–1904) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Lewis Carroll Picture Book (1899) p. 356
“Poor playthings of the man that's gone, Surely we would not have them thrown, Like wreckage on a barren strand, The prey of every greedy hand.”
Frederick York Powell (1850–1904) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At a Certain Auction in 1897" (of the personal effects of Lewis Carroll), in Frederick York Powell, a Life, and a Selection from his Letters and Occasional Writings by Oliver Elton (1906), p. 393
“We cannot steer our drifting raft, nor stem the resistless current; but we have it in our power to behave decently, to share the meagre stock of victuals fairly as long as they last, to take the good and evil as it comes, and even to hope, if we choose to do so, for a fair haven.”
Frederick York Powell (1850–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Pilgrims' Way: A Little Scrip of Good Counsel for Travellers by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1907), p. 174