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Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.
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I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.
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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.
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Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
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The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
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Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
