Famous quotes containing the words packet and/or mode:
“The captain was a duck
With a packet on his back,
And when the ship began to move
The captain said, Quack! Quack!”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th18th century. I saw a ship a-sailing (l. 1316)
“Happiness is a matter of ones most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for ones ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
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