Daily Dose

From The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton

SO

"So it went on, obtusely and persistently, whenever he tried to sound the note of prudence."

From Chapter XII

Daily Dose

From Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, MD, with Memoirs of His Life and Writings, edited by Robert Anderson

NEVER

"Those sculptur'd halls my feet shall never tread,
Where varnish'd vice and vanity combin'd,
To dazzle and seduce, their banners spread,
And forge vile shackles for the free-born mind."

From Ode to Independence, strophe 1

A Caricature