"You have but little more to do..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.
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“I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.”
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.”
“A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.”
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“Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.”
“It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.”
“[My mother] was the oldest of two sisters and two brothers, and she grew up with her brothers, who were about her age. She grew up, to the age of ten, like a wild colt, and then all of a sudden that was over. They had forced on her her 'woman's destiny' by saying, 'This isn't done, this isn't good, this isn't worthy of a lady.'”
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“I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.”
“And, now, come to this spot Where the spotlight is hot And you'll see in the spotlight A Juggling Jott Who can juggle some stuff You might think he could not... Such as twenty-two question marks, Which is a lot. Also forty-four commas And, also, one dot! That's the kind of Circus McGurkus I've got!”
“You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.”