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‘As regards that young horse,’ said Mahbub, ‘I say that when a colt is born to be a polo-pony, closely following the ball without teaching—when such a colt knows the game by divination—then I say it is a great wrong to break that colt to a heavy cart, Sahib!’
Rudyard Kipling • Kim (Illustrated edition)
Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race before it was degraded by contact with the civilized man.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
A man dying for his country does not talk as if local preferences could change.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
He awoke in good time sure enough, sat up, and barked out, “Stop near that cabin in clearing yonder. Our work is here.” Now he was as lost as the rest of us, and didn’t know his way out of the particular patch of woods and that homestead any more than a bird knows his way out of a privy with the door closed, but he was the leader, and he had found
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Beowulf
by Richard Wilbur
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The land was overmuch like scenery,
The flowers attentive, the grass too garrulous green;
In the lake like a dropped kerchief could be seen
The lark's reflection after the lark was gone;
The Roman road lay paved too shiningly
For a road so many men had traveled on.
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Also the people were strange, were strangely warm.
The king
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No mates exist for countless miles around, and a chestnut, though both male and female, will not serve itself.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
