Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type … - William Hurrell Mallock

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. ’. . all this talk about your son’s loyalty and fidelity has made me feel a sudden urge to go riding. ’ His father scowled. ‘You shouldn't ride in your condition. You could fall from a horse and lose or injure the babe you carry. ’ Holding Styxx’s hand in hers, she paused to smile graciously at him. ‘I never said anything about horse, Majesty. It’s your son I intend to mount and ride. Good day.

William Hurrell Mallock

Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings.

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The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.

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No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put it more forcibly than the adversary could put it for himself, and take account not only of what the adversary says, but also the best he MIGHT say, if only he had chanced to think it.

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