…the
signal has been made that the enemy’s combined fleet are coming out of
Port. We have very little wind…
Admiral Nelson to Emma Hamilton, October 19,
1805.
’Tis
strange but true; for truth is always strange—Stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1823
From
the moment a finer ware than the Cream-colour is shown at our Rooms, the sale
of the latter will in a great measure be over there.
Josiah Wedgwood to his partner Thomas Bentley, December
31, 1775
Foolery,
sir, does walk about the orb/ Like the sun, it shines everywhere.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, III.1.44, 1601
