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“An old French sentence says, God works in moments,MEn peu dheure Dieu labeure. We ask for long life, but t is deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“... the French know that you must not succeed you must rise from the ashes and how could you rise from the ashes if there were no ashes, but the Germans never think of ashes and so when there are ashes there is no rising, not at all and every day and in every way this is clearer and clearer.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)
“Tis all dependin whether
The ould engin howlds together
And it might now, Michael, so it might!”
—William Percy French (18541920)
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