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As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.Stephen Vincent Benet
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.Stephen Vincent Benet
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He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.Stephen Vincent Benet
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(Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.Stephen Vincent Benet
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We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound Tokens of love and hate black sorcery stones.Stephen Vincent Benet
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Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute day by day in all the thousand small uncaring ways.Stephen Vincent Benet
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Dreaming men are haunted men.Stephen Vincent Benet