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As one that for a weary space has lain
Lull’d by the song of Circe and her wine
In gardens near the pale of Proserpine, ...

— Andrew Lang The Odyssey (1879)

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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.

They hear like ocean on a western beach
The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.

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But he shaved with a shell when he chose,
'Twas the manner of primitive man.

If indeed there be a god in heaven.

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A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the chance in yourself.

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