A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
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Feels the same comfort while his acrid words Turn the sweet milk of kindness into curds.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Little I ask my wants are few, I only want a hut of stone, (A very plain brownstone will do,) That I may call my own.
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Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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They walked over the crackling leaves in the garden, between the lines of box, breathing its fragrance of eternity for this is one of the odors which carry us out of time into the abysses of the unbeginning past if we ever lived on another ball of stone than this, it must be that there was box growing on it.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
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