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One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

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Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

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You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

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Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"

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(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

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In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'

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The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

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A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

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The heart of a man to the heart of a maid- Light of my tents, be fleet- Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet.

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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

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Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

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I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

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The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.

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He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

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The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

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Those who only know England know not England.

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