You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
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Type: Leader Born: 1840 Death: September 21, 1904 |
“Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.”
“Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.”