A sturdy lad ... who teams it, farms it ... and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
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You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
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The imagination ... inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and ... a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.
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A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.
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... if writing lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men ...
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Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
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