Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. The Pickwick Papers
Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Richard III
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. The Hobbit
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself. Essays
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