The 123 Book Meme (thanx TRP):
1. Open the nearest book to page 123 (No 123? Get a bigger book.)
2. Skip the first five full sentences
3. Post the next three
And away we go:
"Hence, by repeated and serious reflection, try to acquire a firm and felicitous habit of being on guard against the springs and inner promptings of your false and deceptive modalities. No endeavor is more worthy of a Philosopher. If we distinguish the replies of inner Truth from what we say to ourselves on our own, if we distinguish what comes immediately from Reason from what comes to us by way of the body or on occasion of the body, if we distinguish what is immutable, eternal, necessary from what changes at every moment, in short, if we distinguish the evidence of light from the vivacity of instinct, it is almost impossible for us to fall into error."
From Nicolas Malebranche's Dialogues on Metaphysics.
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A "123" from me:
Faron snorted. "Why-why-have you got those bellmen and that doorman wearing those white gloves?" he demanded. "They've got to handle all that dirty luggage. This the most terrible thing."
From Johnny Cash's "Cash," by Johnny Cash.
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