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Quotes from The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp — William Henry Davies

1871–1940 Wales

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People are not to be blamed for their doubts, but that they make no effort to arrive at the truth.

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908)

Cats — by day the most docile of God's creatures, everyone of them in the night enlisting under the devil's banner — took the place by storm after the human voice had ceased.

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908)

This man has talent, that man genius,
And here's the strange and cruel difference:
Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,
Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908)

What a glorious time of the year is this [Spring]! With the warm sun travelling through serene skies, the air clear and fresh above you, which instils new blood in the body, making one defiantly tramp the earth, kicking the snows aside in the scorn of action.

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Henry Davies (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.