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“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.”
― Poor Richard's Almanack
― Poor Richard's Almanack
“Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said: "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter - bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”
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And ate of it.
I said: "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter - bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”
―
“At the end of my life, with just one breath left,
if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.”
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if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.”
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“If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.”
― The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million
― The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million
“Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at portrait level in the far wall, caused by mortar-shell attack on the villa two months earlier. The rest of the room had adapted itself to this wound, accepting the habits of weather, evening stars, the sound of birds.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
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