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...dial of his watch, which bore the Greek inscription: The night cometh, when no man can work. But on his deathbed his deep piety came to the fore. "I will take no more physic, not even my opiates," he said; "for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded." On Dec. 20, 1784, he was buried in Westminster Abbey. His epitaph, suggests Author Krutch, might have been taken from an exclamation by his friend Sir Joshua Reynolds : "His work is done ; and well has he done...
...probably seen most of Twain's witticisms in the Render's Digest and know his boyhood adventures by dint of having read "Tom Sawyer"; nevertheless "The Adventures of Mark Twain" is a worthwhile evening's entertainment...
...Malley they wrote: "For some years we have observed with distaste the gradual decay of meaning and craftsmanship in poetry. Harris and other Angry Penguins writers represent the Australian outcrop of a literary fashion prominent in England and America, a distinctive feature of which seemed to us to render its devotees insensible of its absurdity...
...going to have a time. We are having a pre-commissioning banquet at the Harvard Club. There's going to be a big feed (on plates, too) and then the boys are going to put on a show. I tried to get Chick Henn, the Toastmaster, to let me render the poem I recited at graduation from good old Tizdale High. Mr. Henn thought that the program was long enough already. He said that if I had spoken to him sooner he would have been glad to use me. Remember, Ma, how I recited it at Uncle Newt's wedding...
Magnificent! Wonderful! In my humble opinion the basis of our democracy of the future will rest on freedom of the press. By bringing all the facts to light now you will expose any antifreedom influences-if there are any-and render a service to our future freedom that simply can't be calculated...