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An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
~ Augustine Birrell
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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
~ Augustine Birrell
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Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
~ Augustine Birrell
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History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
~ Augustine Birrell
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Libraries are not made, they grow.
~ Augustine Birrell
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That great dust-heap called 'history'.
~ Augustine Birrell
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Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
~ Aulus Gellius
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I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
~ Aulus Gellius
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Truth is the daughter of time.
~ Aulus Gellius
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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
~ X. J. Kennedy
Days
Endangered
Feel
Given
Meter
Old
Rhyme
Sometimes
Writer
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I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.
~ X. J. Kennedy
Anybody
Moments
Only
Person
Poem
Poet
Producing
Rare
Think
Those
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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.
~ X. J. Kennedy
Cry
Know
Laugh
Like
Poems
Read
Really
Them
Where
Whether
You
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My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.
~ X. J. Kennedy
Back
Be Different
Different
Joe
Kennedy
Live
Massachusetts
Name
People
Port
Real
Real Name
Sign
Stuck
Those
You
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The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.
~ X. J. Kennedy
Among
Attitude
Children
Closely
Consider
Experts
Figure
Go
Kids
Like
Literature
Look
Makes
Many
Out
Poetry
Should
Suspected
Them
Themselves
Things
Who
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
~ X. J. Kennedy
Between
Black
Black And White
Certain
Color
Difference
Few
Film
Films
Free
Free Verse
Full
Me
Meter
Pieces
Poem
Rhyme
Successful
Verse
Watching
White
Wonderful
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A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
~ A. A. Milne
Anywhere
Applause
Arranging
Beds
Clever
Entertainment
Envy
Gift
Greater
Laughter
Limited
Lot
Much
Must
Natural
Powers
Setting
Some
Those
Tribute
Us
View
Welcome
Which
Whose
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
~ A. A. Milne
He
His
Money
More
Permanence
Something
Than
Wants
Work
Writer
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
~ A. A. Milne
Along
Bothering
Doing
Going
Hear
Just
Listening
Nothing
Thing
Underestimate
Value
You
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
~ A. A. Milne
Am
Book
Children
First
He
Himself
I Am
Like
No-One
Sure
Unless
Which
Will
Write
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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
~ A. A. Milne
Always
Books
Children
Escape
Gave
Had
Once
Punch
Them
Up
Vain
Wanted
Writing
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