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Thomas Edward Brown

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Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.


— Thomas Edward Brown


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A rich man's joke is always funny.


— Thomas Edward Brown


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I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.


— Thomas Edward Brown


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It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.


— Thomas Edward Brown


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Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.


— Thomas Edward Brown


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The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.


— Thomas Edward Brown


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We very soon came to terms and I left him there under promise to come to Clifton as my colleague at the beginning of the following term. He died in less than two hours. He was the guest of one of the house-masters and on a Friday evening he gave an address to the boys of the house.

He won a double first however and was elected a fellow of Oriel in April 1854 Dean Thomas Gaisford having refused to promote him to a senior studentship of his own college on the ground that no servitor had ever before attained to that honour. This volume included at least three other notable poems--"Tommy Big-eyes" "Christmas Rose" and "Captain Tom and Captain Hugh. He had been ordained deacon but did not proceed to priest's orders for many years.

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