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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

Books that told me everything about the wasp, except why.

Everything I have written seems like straw by comparison with what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

Our goodness derives not from our capacity to think but to love.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much.

Then, rising with Aurora’s light,

Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men’s power to be agreeable.

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

If landscapes were sold, like the sheets of characters of my boyhood, one penny plain and twopence coloured, I should go the length of twopence every day of my life.

If landscapes were sold, like the sheets of characters of my boyhood, one penny plain and twopence coloured, I should go the length of twopence every day of my life.

Let’s talk sense to the American people.

If they [the Republicans] will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I do not know which to prefer,

For the listener, who listens in the snow,

Beauty is momentary in the mind—

Music is feeling, then, not sound.

Music is feeling, then, not sound.

They said, ‘You have a blue guitar,

They said, ‘You have a blue guitar,