"It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks."
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"Rotten wood cannot be carved."
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"There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood."
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"What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet."
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"In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled."
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"The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood."
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"A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood."
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"When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter."
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"The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods."
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"Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself."
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"Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods."
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"I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon."
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"If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much."
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"One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody."
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"A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream."
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"Simple, like uncarved wood."
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"One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else."
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"There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds."
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"No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself."
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"I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood."
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