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The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrase
"Let our thoughts be correct". -- Confuciu...
The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhy...
The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy.
-- Celine...
The point is, you see, that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad.
You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later....
The polite thing to do has always been to address people as they wish to be addressed, to treat them in a way they think dignified.
But it is equally important to accept and tolerate different standa...
The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment.
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog....
The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too thin to cultivate.
-- Doug Sneyd...
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. -- Anthony Burge
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
-- U.S. Constitution, Amendment 10....
The Preacher, the Politician, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie! -- Ogden Nash...

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