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Richard Le Gallienne Quote

“Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.”

— Richard Le Gallienne

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All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

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Wisdom

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A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

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Wisdom

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We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.

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Wisdom

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Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

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Life

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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

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Life

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The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

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Love

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