Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.
Augustus HareHappy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Augustus HareExamples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
Augustus HareReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.
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