“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.