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I do not crave the boon
Of Immortality;
I do not want the moon,
Nor yet the rainbow's key.
I do not yearn for wings,
Or fins to swim the sea;
I merely want the things
That are not good for me.

— Victor Daley

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Six days he does no work, and
The seventh takes for rest.

Life is a web with many broken ends:
Then why, O friend, be sad?
Good is not near so good as it pretends;
Bad is not half so bad.

Other Bards I envy not —
Room there is for all, God wot —
All I ask is room for me
On the top branch of the tree.

My Fairy Godmother (1902)

I do not care for men
To point with pride at me;
A model citizen
I do not wish to be.

O reader, deem me not a sham,
For I in purple earnest am!

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