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A selected quote by John Keats.
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
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It is never too late to be wise.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.