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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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I see great things in baseball. It’s our game - the American game.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.