FAMOUS WORDSWORTH QUOTE: “The world is too much with us; late and soon, |
WORLD WIDE WEB QUOTE: “400 million people are friending, unfriending, and trading Farmville cows on Facebook. 50 million people are tweeting, retweeting, and getting into tweetbates about March Madness or the virtues of Four Square. To paraphrase William Wordsworth, the World Wide Web is too much with us.” |
THE PRE-INTERNET VERSION: “The Press is too much with us, small and great: |
MEN VS. WOMEN QUOTE: “Men can concentrate in messy rooms if the alternative is to clean them. But women! The mess ‘is too much with us; late and soon,’ cleaning and cooking, ‘we lay waste our powers.’” |
“The government, the vessel of secular humanism, is too much with us; and...getting and spending in political programs, we lay waste our powers.” |
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