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There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

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Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small-clothes and looks as if he smelt it.

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The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

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I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

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A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even on solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

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While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

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Change in a trice the lilies and languors of virtue for the raptures and roses of vice.

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The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.

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The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

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In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.

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With anxious eye she surveyed the expanse of ocean; it was indeed a "shipless sea," neither boat nor any larger vessel was to be seen, and she feared the people Marchmont has expected might have disappointed him.

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All was wild, solitary and gloomy; the low murmur of the water formed a sort of accompaniment to the cries of the sand-piper, the puffin-awk; while the screaming gull, and the hoarse and heavy cormorant were heard, at intervals, still louder.

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"Who but those who call themselves philosophers," exclaimed the Doctor, with increased impatience, "who else have occasioned all the bloodshed and misery we have unhappily lived to see in our time, in a neighbouring kingdom?"

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If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

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