#ale

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ↗

— Horace

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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ↗

— Horace

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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. ↗

— Horace

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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. ↗

— Horace

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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. ↗

— A. E. Housman

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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ↗

— Jean Houston

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