With Cosette's garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would call him Nestor.
With Cosette's garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would call him Nestor.
Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.
Admonished by her buckled lips
Let every babbler be
The only secret people keep
Is Immortality.
Time will reveal everything to posterity it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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