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Young man—Young man—Your arm's too short to box with God.
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With his head in his hands,
God thought and thought,
Till he thought: I'll make me a man!
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Without a thought of fear — Man never had The faith in God That he has in an engineer!
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When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
James Weldon Johnson
Born:
June 17, 1871
Died:
June 26, 1938
(aged 67)
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