Source: Library School Rules, Melvil Dewey, 1905.How Can I Cure My Indignation?
Image source: The Beauty of the Heavens by Charles F. Blunt, 1842.
Corrigenda - Successfully Noxious Suggestions
Source: Vol. XLVI Corrigenda, Publisher Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 1828.
Source: Wanted: A Correspondent by Thomas Stewart Denison, 1877.Imagination in Blighting Dreams
Imagination in Blighting Dreams
Imagination is one thing; invention is quite another story.
The ordinary individual plans and watches and it means nothing.
But an imaginative woman puts many inventive traces of sorrow in her wake.
Source: Imagination in Business by Lorin F. Deland, 1909.
How to Make Them Lament
Source: Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
Common Torments
Source: The Commercial Forest Trees of Massachusetts by Daniel Allen Clarke, 1908.
The Art of Tying Craving to the Personal
Source: The Art of Tying the Cravat by H. Le Blanc, 1828.
Where are your dreams?
Source: Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal R.R. by Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad, 1910.
Source: Jealousy by Marion W. Wildrick, 1889,Dreaming in Women
Source: A Digest of Metabolism Experiments in which the Balance of Income and Outgo was Determinedby Charles Ford Langworthy, 1898.
Dreams Carried on a Ghost Ship
Image source: The Mirage by DePauw University, 1886.Letter A source: The Celebrated Hans Holbein's Alphabet of Death, 1856.
Find the Hidden Parts of Night-Time Dreams
Image source: The Beauty of the Heavens by Charles F. Blunt, 1842.
Complete Your Dream
Source: Secrets of the Great Mysteries Now Revealed for the First Time by "Oudini", 1909.
Source: Invitation to a Dance, 1891.
Image source: The Brain and Its Diseases by Thomas Stretch Dowse, 1880.
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