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Often I am permitted to return to a meadow
as if it were a given property of the mind
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The differences between the two men were pronounced. Galileo was an urbane gentleman who loved wine (which he described as "light ...
Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things;we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apar ...
To get time for civic work, for exercise, for neighborhood projects, reading or meditation, or just plain time to themselves, moth ...
I thought when I was a young man that I would conquer the world with truth. I thought I would lead an army greater than Alexander ...
... it must be obvious that in the agitation preceding the enactment of [protective] laws the zeal of the reformers would be secon ...
There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful not ...
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to ...
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold on us. It is better to keep the wolf out o ...
Dubliners, strictly speaking, are my fellow-countrymen, but I don't care to speak of our "dear, dirty Dublin" as they do. Dubliner ...
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