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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

"In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles."

"Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done-peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color."

"Custom is second nature."

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."

"In the summer heat the reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."

"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."
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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."


"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera."


"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."


"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."


"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."
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