There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place. The single fat thing on the soil was Marian herself; and she was an importation. Of the three classes of village, the village cared for by its lord, the village cared for by itself, and the village uncared for either by itself or by its lord (in other words, the village of a resident squires's tenantry, the village of free or copy-holders, and the absentee-owner's village, farmed with the land) this place, Flintcomb-Ash, was the third. But Tess set to work. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.
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He would cry out on life, that what it wants Is not its own love back in copy speech, But counter-love, original response.
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They copied all they could follow but they couldn't copy my mind so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind
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I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
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Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. Do not forget to make proper arrangements for your last will and testament: speaking personally, I ask that I be taken to the cemetery in a moving van. May my friends destroy every last copy of the printing of the Speech concerning the Modicum of Reality .
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What would you have me do? Search out some powerful patronage, and be Like crawling ivy clinging to a tree? No thank you. Dedicate, like all the others, Verses to plutocrats, while caution smothers Whatever might offend my lord and master? No thank you. Kneel until my knee-caps fester, Bend my back until I crack my spine, And scratch another’s back if he’ll scratch mine? No thank you. Dining out to curry favour, Meeting the influential till I slaver, Suiting my style to what the critics want With slavish copy of the latest can’t? No thanks! Ready to jump through any hoop To be the great man of a little group? Be blown off course, with madrigals for sails, By the old women sighing through their veils? Labouring to write a line of such good breeding Its only fault is that it’s not worth reading? To ingratiate myself, abject with fear, And fawn and flatter to avoid a sneer? No thanks, no thanks, no thanks! But just to sing, Dream, laugh, and take my tilt of wing, To cock a snook whenever I shall choose, To fight for yes and no, come win or lose, To travel without thought of fame or fortune Wherever I care to go to under the moon! Never to write a line that hasn’t come Directly from my heart: and so, with some Modesty, to tell myself: My boy, Be satisfied with a flower, a fruit, the joy Of a single leaf, so long as it was grown In your own garden. Then, if success is won By any chance, you have nothing to render to A hollow Caesar: the merit belongs to you. In short, I won’t be a parasite; I’ll be My own intention, stand alone and free, And suit my voice to what my own eyes see!
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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
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Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
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Clone, n 1. an exact duplicate, as in 'our product is a clone of their product.' 2. a shoddy, spurious copy, as in 'their product is a clone of our product'.
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If you can't imitate him, don't copy him
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy Shell to DOS...
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
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I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
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[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.
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I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought 'what good would that do?'.
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Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
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I was going to buy a copy of 'The Power of Positive Thinking', and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
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I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do
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I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
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