Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to saving our lives.
("Treasure Island")
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Love, and the love of life and act
Dance, live and sing through all our furrowed tract;
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To him who reads, to him who lives,
That rare and fair romantic strain
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