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The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

The real war will never get in the books.