"Thaumatrope" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... affection in this town of convicts at the world's end. There are very few things, my dear Charles, worth mention: on a retrospect of life, the day's flash and colour, one day with another, flames, dazzles, and puts to sleep; and when the days are gone, like a fast-flying thaumatrope, they make but a single pattern. Only a few things stand out; and among these - most plainly to me - Rutland Square, - Ever, my dear Charles, ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson |
