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When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed of small worth held:
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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
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“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
― Self-Consciousness
― Self-Consciousness
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
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