"Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west."

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“By thunders of white silence.”

“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”

“Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”

“Since when was genius found respectable?”

“God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.”

“Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.”

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— John Muir

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"Have as little suspicion as possible and conceal that."

— John Lancaster Spalding

Literature1840–1916

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— 陳克勤

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"So little is said about the scholarship boy in pages and pages of educational literature. Nothing is said of the silence that comes to separate the boy from his parents."

— Richard Rodriguez

Literature1958

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