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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet…
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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never…
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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the…
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is…
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody…
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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study…
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Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.
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Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like.
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Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.
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And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks. Thank you, Michael, for letting my son…
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Penthouse suite, Penthouse freaks. In house beach, french countess, ten thou piece.
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