"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

Poems, Woman

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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

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"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

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"He felt himself now, as he had often fancied other people, adrift on the stream, and far removed from control of it, a man with no grasp upon circumstances any longer. Old battered man loafing at the doors of public-houses now seemed to be his fellows, and he felt, as he supposed them to feel, a mingling of envy and hatred towards those who passed quickly and certainly to a goal of their own. They, too, saw things very thin and shadowy, and were wafted about by the lightest breath of wind. For the substantial world, with its prospect of avenues leading on and on to the invisible distance, had slipped from him."

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