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I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.
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Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
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They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"— and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: "Maybe I'm a king.
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It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Born:
January 17, 1914
Died:
August 28, 1993
(aged 79)
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