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I also love a quiet place
That's green, away from all mankind;
A lonely pool, and let a tree
Sigh with her bosom over me.

— William Henry Davies

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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)

What sweet, what happy days had I,
When dreams made Time Eternity!

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)

Thou shalt not laugh, thou shalt not romp,
Let's grimly kiss with bated breath;
As quietly and solemnly
As Life when it is kissing Death.

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