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The great thing, perhaps was not to be too successful too young.

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O love's a simple word to say
With nature aiding and abetting;

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To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal.

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Swans... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

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Then say–how come the years to seem so swift,
The days, the days so slow?

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Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

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For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:
But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

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To achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

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The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

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Now heaven be thanked, I am out of love again!
I have been long a slave, and now am free;

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The blind heart is worse than the blind eye,
And the half-truth more dangerous than the lie.

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In childhood the daylight always fails too soon — except when there are going to be fireworks;

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When a knight won his spurs, in the stories of old,
He was gentle and brave, he was gallant and bold.

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[List making] is inexpensive, harmless to other people, and not dependent upon your age or your income.

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[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

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How much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

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It took me forty years on earth
To reach this sure conclusion:
There is no Heaven but clarity,
No Hell except confusion.

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Librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

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The chrysanthemums... were the big mop-headed kind, burgundy-coloured, with curled petals; their beauty was noble, architectural.

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To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

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The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated — not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

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Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

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Giving a party is very like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion, and once you have begun it is almost impossible to stop.

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It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

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Until we have done everything we can to make the whole world into a home fit for all men, women and children to live in, we have not earned the right to enjoy our own fireside.

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