Word: radish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...what is immovably attached to it real property, but I am of opinion that those only are real possessions which abide with a man after he has been stripped of those others falsely so called, and which alone save him from seeming and from being the miserable forked radish to which the bitter scorn of Lear degraded every child of Adam. The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature will defy fortune and outlive calamity. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot be alienated. "Books," says Wordsworth, "are a real world," and he was thinking, doubtless, of such books...