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It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing. |
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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.- Clara Barton
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
