"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
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"I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea."
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"Everyone lives by selling something."
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"The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing."
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"Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed; and still to my Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer, Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant; Spring, flower-planter in meadows, Child-conductor in willowy Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses: Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity: O child, happy are children!"
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"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."
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"Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means."
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"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."
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"He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment."
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"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first."
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"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."
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"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life."
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"I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew."
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"Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life."
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"Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference."
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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
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"I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun."
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"If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek."
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"Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name."
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"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."
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