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We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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Words, however, are things.

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The things which must be must be for the best.

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Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

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That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.

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Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.

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The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reap…

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I loved you ere I knew you; know you now, And having known you, love you better still.

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

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