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The Student" "In America," began the lecturer, "everyone must have a degree. The French do not think that all can have it, they don't say everyone must go to college." We incline to feel, here, that although it may be unnecessary to know fifteen languages. one degree is not too much. With us, a school--like the singing tree of which the leaves were mouths that sang in concert-- is both a tree of knowledge and of liberty-- seen in the un..
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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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I look upon verse as an exercise in composition.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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My father used to say "Superior people never make long visits."
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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
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What is our innocence,naked, none is safe.
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Beauty is everlastingand dust is for a time.
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Some speak of things we know, as new; And you, of things unknown as things forgot.
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We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave.
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Love, ah Love, when your slipknot's drawn, One can but say, "Farewell, good sense."
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