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Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Age: 58 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 22
Died: 1950
Died: October 19
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Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday.
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Time can make soft that iron wood.
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O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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Night falls fast. Today is in the past.
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April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
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After the feet of beauty fly my own.
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That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.
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Youth, have no pity leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.
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I will come back to you, I swear I will And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.
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