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How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?

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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

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The Navy is very old and very wise.

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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

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Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

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When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

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Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

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Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.

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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

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I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.

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Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

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What stands if freedom fall?

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Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose and rhyme- When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time?

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After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

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Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.

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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

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All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.

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