Off with the spoils of wrinkled age!
(The Old Man Dreams)
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The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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Man has his will - but woman has her way.
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the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.
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The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
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