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“The ordinary manwe have to face it: it is every bit as true of the ordinary Englishman as of the ordinary Americanis an Anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesnt want to be governed.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of mans art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“From alle wymmen mi love is lent
And lyht on Alysoun.”
—Unknown. Alison. . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 12501918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939)
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