May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

James Russell Lowell
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  1. Fate loves the fearless.

  2. Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

  3. Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

  4. In creating the only hard thing's to begin

  5. A wise man travels to discover himself.

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