"My heart pumps yet the poison draught of…" — William Empson

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• I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment… — John Burroughs
• Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on… — Maya Angelou
• But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or… — George Arnold
• One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. — Friedrich Schiller
• Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man… — Henry David Thoreau
• Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates… — Rabindranath Tagore
• There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe. — Frederick Marryat
• It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped… — Zadie Smith
• Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,… — Thomas Noon Talfourd
• Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato
• At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is… — Plato
• One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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