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 | "How slow the shadow creeps: but when "tis past How fast the shadows
fall. How fast! How fast!" | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| ""Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and
tea Are all the human frame requires ... With that the wretched child
expires." | |
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Found in the topic Tea.
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| "Loss and Possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow
where there shines no sun" | |
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Found in the topic Shadow.
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| "From quiet homes and first beginnings, Out to the undiscovered ends,
There"s nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of
friends." | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they
came They answered, as they took their fees, "There is no Cure for this
Disease."" | |
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Found in the topic Disease.
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| "Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the
quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death." | |
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Found in the topic Statistics.
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| "Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one"s
eyes; Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for
truth, Attempted to believe Matilda: The effort very nearly killed
her." | |
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Found in the topic Fire.
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| "Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest
treasure." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the
difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but
we travel for fulfillment." | |
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Found in the topic Travel.
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| "When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but
his books were read."" | |
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Found in the topic Writing.
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