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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
D. H. Lawrence
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D. H. Lawrence
Age: 45 †
Born: 1885
Born: January 1
Died: 1930
Died: January 1
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If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
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It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.
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If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.
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O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.
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