I assure you, I've come to one of those natural breaks in the book, where one can walk away and let things go on working in the subconscious. It's true, don't look so unbelieving. It means I can afford to tear myself away from my view of the pigsties and go out on parole, as much as I like and you'll put up with. Mary Stewart
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  1. The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
  2. The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.
  3. Used every man according to his capacity.
  4. At breakfast! ' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.
  5. Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.
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