Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when … - John Godfrey Saxe

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Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still. . . you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

John Godfrey Saxe

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!

Exactly, Looks, Men, Proper, Track

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If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

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Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.

Celestial, Order, Primary, Regions, Regulation

God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself, nor try To make it, as the lucky fellow might A close monopoly by patent-right.

Discovery, Fellow, Keep, Men, Monopoly, Sleep

The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.

Astronomer, Dye, Glowing, Sky, Stars, Things

When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.

Bowers, Concern, Flower, Gives, Writing, Yield

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Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still. . . you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

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I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

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Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?. . . when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the most ignorant of their fathers. So it is in regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain. It was made to give light to those who dwell upon it, and to other planets; and so will this earth when it is celestialized

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