{"id":7903,"date":"2014-06-12T16:51:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T16:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/12\/two-pipe-quotations\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T16:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T16:51:50","slug":"two-pipe-quotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/12\/two-pipe-quotations\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Pipe Quotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

My referrers' list points me to this post<\/a> whence I snagged these two delightful quotations:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.<\/span><\/p>\n

William Makepeace Thackeray <\/span><\/p>\n

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The name 'Bulwer-Lytton' rings a bell doesn't it?  You guessed right: it's the same Bulwer-Lytton<\/a> who penned, in prose of purple, the opening sentence,<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents \u2014 except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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My referrers' list points me to this post whence I snagged these two delightful quotations: The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected. William Makepeace Thackeray  A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the … Continue reading “Two Pipe Quotations”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,181,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}