The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.Christopher Morley
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Lord when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
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