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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  1. As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

  2. Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

  3. He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.

  4. (Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.

  5. 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.

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