"Sesame" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disputed question only begins to appear when the rival ideals admit each other's right to exist.—A. SIDGWICK, Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs, 1892, 211. That cruel reticence in the breasts of wise men which makes them always hide their deeper thought.—RUSKIN, Sesame and Lilies, i. 16. Je offener wir die einzelnen Wahrheiten des Sozialismus anerkennen, desto erfolgreicher konnen wir seine fundamentalen Unwahrheiten widerlegen.—ROSCHER, Deutsche Vierteljahrschrift, ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... was working swiftly. The night, after all, perhaps, was not to be so much of a failure! To get into intimate touch with all the members of the clique was equally one of her objects, and, failing Danglar himself to-night, here was an "open sesame" to the re-treat of two of the others. She would never have a better chance, or one in which risk and danger, under the chaperonage, as it were, of Shluker here, were, if not entirely eliminated, at least reduced ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard
... small fact my mind could know Of matter or of spirit,— Within, without, above, below, And never neighbor near it,— This tiny thing a Universe would be, Clear as Arabian caves to Sesame. ...
— Mastery of Self • Frank Channing Haddock
... proprietor of my favourite hotel (securing apartments), knowing him to be a very decent fellow; but now, perforce," he added with an intent look, trying to read her, "my would-be landlord must go to the wall, while the doors of the villa obey the open sesame of ...
— A Heart-Song of To-day • Annie Gregg Savigny
... astray, never feel the caressing touch which the yearning Shepherd lays on the obstinate wanderer, who would not pasture in peace; and from the immemorial dawn of inchoate civilization, prodigals have possessed the open sesame to parental hearts that seemed barred against the more dutiful. By what perverted organon of ethics has it come to pass in sociology, that the badge of favoritism is ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
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