"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet."

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"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet."

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"By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind."

Gentleman, Mankind, Nothing

"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet."

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"Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."

Nothing, Spring

"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."

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"Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion."

Religion, People, Impression, Deep

"It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither."

Time, Poetry, Flying, Road

"I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession."

Heart, Confession, Living, Man

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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

World, Behavior, Respect, Power

"CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world."

Jim Walton, American Businessman

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"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."

Clifford Stoll, American Author

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"I am a citizen of the world."

Demosthenes, Greek Statesman

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"There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals."

Hosea Ballou, American Clergyman

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"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."

Maynard James Keenan, American Musician

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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'"

Rip Torn, American Actor

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"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"

Will M. Cook, American Composer

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"By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind."

"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet."

"Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."

"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."

"The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened."

"Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison."

"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."

"Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion."

"It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither."

"I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession."

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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."

"CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world."

"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."

"I am a citizen of the world."

"There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals."

"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."

"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."

"Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'"

"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"