"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."
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"If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving."
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"Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows"
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"The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people."
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"We ran as if to meet the moon."
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"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."
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"But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?"
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"I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."
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"'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing."
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"Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent."
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"I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."
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"If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts."
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"Nature is always hinting at us."
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"We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear."
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"The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods."
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"My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off."
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"I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me."
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"Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God."
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"The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do."
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"Hell is a half-filled auditorium."
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