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We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.

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People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis...

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Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.

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She sleeps up in the attic there
Alone, poor maid. 'Tis but a stair
Betwixt us. Oh! my God! the down,
The soft young down of her, the brown,
The brown of her—her eyes, her hair, her hair!

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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Based on quote from Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Act II, scene v: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
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Charlotte Mew

Charlotte Mew

Born: November 15, 1869
Died: March 24, 1928 (aged 58)
Bio: Charlotte Mary Mew was an English poet, whose work spans the cusp between Victorian poetry and Modernism.
Known for:
  1. The Farmer's Bride (1916)
  2. Collected Poems and Selected Prose
  3. Complete Poems
  4. Some Ways of Love

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