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Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.

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In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.

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The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea.

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At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

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Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

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On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

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The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.

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I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.

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My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

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This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

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I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.

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In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

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My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

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Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

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Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

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All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

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Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.

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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

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