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• Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom…
• I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
• Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.
• Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou…
• Life is a quest and love a quarrel
• Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen…
• I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who…
• Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
• Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off…
• Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our…
• Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
• The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.

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