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I was last among the long grass and I'd never seen long grass and never been on my own and out of sight of humans before.

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I remember trying to impress her by writing an essay about the Rocky Mountains and the bears and it was the first bad review I ever had - shameful!

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The sun sets down at the end of the valley over the Severn and there's this afterglow which catches those quarries and it just sits there glowing when the light is gone from everywhere else in the valley - it holds the light to the last drop.

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I was reminding them of their lives and I think that was why it was read so much, but this was quite unintentional and unpredictable.

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It was the end of a semi-feudal life and it was also the beginning of one's own life.

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Here we lived and fed in a family fug, not minding the little space, trod on each other like birds in a hole, elbowed our ways without spite, all talking at once or silent at once, or crying against each other, but never I think feeling overcrowded, being as separate as notes in a scale.

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The house is still down the bank, still very unchanged, except that there are new people, nice people living there.

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Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.

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A diff'rent cause, says Parson Sly, The same effect may give: Poor Lubin fears, that he shall die; His wife, that he may live.

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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

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They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say.

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They always talk who never think.

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But Thou that know'st Love above Intrest or lust Strew the Myrtle and Rose on this once belov'd Dust...

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A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

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We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

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Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

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Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

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