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Hesiod came away a poet with words as golden as the grain he sowed and as sharp as the scythe that cut it. ‘Let no woman deceive your mind with her shapely bottom / And wheedling conversation,’ he urged, ‘it’s your barn she is seeking.’[1]
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
― The Labours of Hercules
― The Labours of Hercules
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