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Classic Quotes by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) US poet It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages. ------------------------ It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time. ------------------------ It was the love of love, the love that swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of nature, of people, of animals, a love engendering gentleness and goodness that moved me and that I saw in you. ------------------------ In summer, the song sings itself. ------------------------ It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. ------------------------ The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost." |
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. ------------------------ A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing. ------------------------ A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ------------------------ A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. ------------------------ A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. ------------------------ A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ------------------------ A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ------------------------ A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. ------------------------ A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. |
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