Uncommon
By Mitch Berg
Sheila is on another of her “commonplace” rampages.
I love this one:
I have a higher and greater standard of principle [than George Washington]. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won’t.
— Mark Twain, 1871
Oh, and this one:
He had the finest ear, perhaps, of any English poet; he was also undoubtedly the stupidest; there was little about melancholia he didn’t know; there was little else that he did.
— Auden on Tennyson
Just go and read ’em. There’ll be thousands by the time she’s done.
