mixture quotes

There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.

-William Cowper
  Letter to Rev William Unwin,7 Sep.

Fromthefirst place of liquid darkness, within thesecond place of air and light, I set down the following record with itsmixture of fact and truths and memories oftruths and its direction always toward theThird Place, where the starting point is myth.

-Janet Paterson also known as Jean PatersonFrame Frame
  To the Is-land, ch.1,'In the Second Place'.

The Soviet game is chess†ours is poker.We will have to play a creative mixture of both games.

- George P(ratt) Shultz
  Comment to President Reagan. Recalled in Turmoil and Triumph.

I opened a tin of Bologna sausage and broke a cake of chocolate, and that was all I had to eat. It may sound offensive, but I ate them together, bite by bite, by way of bread and meat. All I had to wash down this revolting mixture was neat brandy; a revolting beverage in itself. But I was rare and hungry; ate well, and smoked one of thebestcigarettesinmyexperience.Then Iput a stonein my straw hat, pulled the flap of my fur cap over my neck and eyes, put my revolver ready to hand, and snuggled well down among the sheepskins.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  Travels with a Donkey.