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“[Death] was not at home by that time, he was in his yam garden.”
― The Palm-Wine Drinkard
― The Palm-Wine Drinkard
“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
― The Code of the Woosters
― The Code of the Woosters
“while I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it.”
― Tristes Tropiques
― Tristes Tropiques
“In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.”
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“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.”
― The Book of Tea
― The Book of Tea
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