Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
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Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
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There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
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When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away, And in a dream as in a fairy bark Drift on and on through the enchanted dark To purple daybreak - little thought we pay.
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Gracious to all, to none subservient, without offense he spoke the word he meant.
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No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
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