allerlei

Updated: June 21, 2025

We should be wiser if we gave less glory to the men who have been successful in forcing their fellow-men to die, and more glory to the men who have been successful in teaching their fellow-men how to live. But the Festa of Cortina did not remain all day on this high moral plane. In the afternoon came what our landlady called "allerlei Dummheiten."

Henry Van Dyke - Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness

It purported to be the life and "clothes-philosophy" of a certain Diogenes Teufelsdröckh, Professor der Allerlei Wissenschaft of things in general in the University of Weissnichtwo.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson