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I love roads:
The goddesses that dwell
Far along them invisible
Are my favourite...
I have come to the borders of sleep,
The unfathomable deep
Forest where all must lose
Their...
Out of us all
That make rhymes,
Will you choose
Sometimes -
As the winds use
A crack in a wall
Or a...
There is not any book
Or face of dearest look
That I would not turn from now
To go into the unknown
I must...
The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To...
Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paper work down to a...
The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.
Source: Funeral Games, I.
-- Joe...
It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.
Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breast-feeding, circumcision. I had to make my own...
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad...
When house and land are gone and spent,
Then learning is most excellent.
Source:...
They all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gun powder ran out at the heels of their...
The great Panjandrum himself.
Source: Nonsense, quoted by Maria Edgeworth in Harry...
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming...
What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in...
His form was of the manliest beauty,
His heart was kind and soft;
Faithful below he did his duty,
But now he...
Then trust me, there's nothing like drinking
So pleasant on this side the grave;
It keeps the unhappy from...
For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft,
To keep watch for the life of poor...
In every mess I find a friend,
In every port a wife.
Source: Jack in his...
What argufies pride and ambition?
Soon or late death will take us in tow:
Each bullet has got its...