spelling.....................

 

It is a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

-attributed to Andrew Jackson, Mark Twain, and others

spells...........................

  Words are energy and cast spells, that’s why it’s called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.

-Bruce Lee, with more wisdom here

Thanks Ray

George gives a spelling lesson....

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Opening paragraphs........................

Lady Jane Grey, a red-haired, freckle-faced grandniece of Henry the Eighth, read, while still a girl, the Old Testament in Hebrew and Plato in Greek.  She was remarkable;  she was untoward.  A royal tutor once found her shut in her room reading an account of Socrates's execution for heresy, "with as much delite, as some jentleman wold read a merie tale."  She was thirteen.  The tutor confessed himself astonished.  Why, he asked, did she closet herself in her chamber to study the philosophy of death when she might instead hunt in the park with the duke and his duchess?
     She looked up from her book.  "They never felt, what trewe pleasure ment," she said.
     This scarcely slaked him.
     "And howe came you," inquired he, "to this deepe knowledge of pleasure?"
     "I will tell you," she obliged:  when she was in the company of other than books, she said, "I thinke my selfe in hell."

Jill Lepore,  Book of Ages:  The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

About value................................

The contemporary land-bank projectors, who wanted to replace a gold-backed currency with one supported by the value of land, even realised that the notion of "intrinsic value" was an oxymoron, since "intrinsic" suggested an inward quality, while "value" was always external.  For instance, Nicholas Barbon argued that "things have no Value in themselves, it is opinion and fashion which brings them into use and gives them a value."

-Edward Chancellor,  Devil Take The Hindmost:  A History of Financial Speculation

Ed. Note:  Spell check keeps telling me "realised" is incorrect.  Perhaps not.