Life, 1913-05-01 · page 19 of 48
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This page documents Life magazine's contest for the best literary quotation accompanying a photograph. The winning entry, submitted by De Verne Fargo of Tonawanda, New York, was a fifty-word passage from R.L. Stevenson's *Travels with a Donkey*: "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." The image shows a man in dark clothing positioned against a stone wall in what appears to be a moment of physical exertion or escape. The Stevenson quotation about travel and movement perfectly captures this dynamic action. The page lists twenty-one runner-up quotations from well-known writers including Dickens, Shakespeare, and contemporary authors like George Ade. The contest received 13,335 total submissions, demonstrating Life's significant readership and cultural influence in this era.
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oe Ce bel cial Winner in Life’s Contest oT For the quotation (not exceeding fifty words) that best fits this picture, in English verse or prose. from the published works of any well-known writer, Lire offered a prize of $100. THE WINNING QUOTATION “ For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. T travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” —R. L. Stevenson, “ Travels with a Donkey.” “The wicked flee when no man pur- sueth” and “ Coming events cast their shadows before") were not consid- wos + ered, as they were duplicated hundreds DE 'VERNE FARGO, of times. The titles finally considered 108 Broap Street, by the judges were (omitting the win- Toxawanpa, N. Y. ning title) the twenty-one that follow: HE winning quotation to the’ con- test picture reproduced on this page was sent in by This picture was first published in our issue of March 27, and again in the three numbers following. The contest closed at noon on Saturday, April 19. ' There were received in all 13,335 over sixteen hundred of them “Hope in God, but exert yourself.” Russian, “The pursuit of Holines: Edw. Mayrick Coulburn, D.D., Dean of Warwick. “Oh, fool! to shun delights that never answer: eee having reached the closing day. back ” having reached us on the closing day. — Come back, oh, shallow’ fool! come back From all of the answers, one hundred to joy! and eight were selected among the probabilities. Each of the five judges { took a separate list of these one hun- dred and eight titles and independently selected five which in his judgment | were the best. This resulted in twenty- two titles. From this list the final award was made by the judges. Several of the best titles (such as “The Mikado,” Gilbert and Sullivan. “A man with whiskers has to do some- thing darned unusual to be interesting.” George Ade. “T Josephed it.” George Borup. “This is the woman who put the hop Anon. in Bishop.” 879 “There ain't anything that will curc completely laziness, but I have known a second wife to hurry it some.” Josh Billings. “ With flying hat, along the convent wall, His courage gone, with stride evading fate, He fled the shadow pride and all, In the faint hope to find the looked for gate.” Suwarrow Leeds. and chanced his “He speaketh with his feet.” Proverbs v 3 “To beat temptation when you meet it, Turn on your beat and simply beat it.” John Kendrick Bangs. “A man may have too much of this sort of thing, and then he becomes very sick of his cake. Such was the nature of his thoughts as he returned to his abode.” The Last Chronicle of Barset. “ Trollope.” “ Passing the love of women.” Second Samuel, 126, “The wicked flee when no man pur- sueth,” and they make still better time when somebody is pursuing. Rev. Chas. H. Parkhurst— Sermons. “One's piety is best displayed in his pursuits.” A. B, Alcott. “Forth sprang the impassioned Queen her Lord to clasp. Again that consummation she es- sayed ; But unsubstantial Form cludes her grasp, As often as that cager grasp was made.” Wm. Wordsworth's “The wise pend.” “ Loadamia.” for cure on exercise de- Dryden. “Turn again, O my sweetest, turn again, false and fleetest ; This beaten way thou beatest I fear is hell’s own track.” Christina Georgina Rossetti. “The guilty one has committed the who has created the is not the person who but the adow.”” Victor Hugo. sin, person “Who makes quick use of his mo: ments is a genius of prudenc La “None could be too old for her and hardly any too young. None t fied and none too worldly. She was quite prepared to entrap the bishop himself.” Anthony Trollope. vator. 0 sancti- “Marriages are made in heaven; I thought of waiting until I got there.” Anthony Hope. comicbooks.com