We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan
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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
The cliche is dead poetry.
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
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