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How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.
The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is a wee one's trundle-bed;
So shut your eyes while Mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock on the misty sea.
Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?
When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred,
He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"
But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!
He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe, -
Sailed on a river of crystal light
Into a sea of dew.
Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it
Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.
There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine,
A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.
I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.
