Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.
Pietro AretinoAnd there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
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