And silence sounds no worse than cheers After death has stopped the ears.

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On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.

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Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

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The brisk fond lackey to fetch and carry, The true, sick-hearted slave,...

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'Long for me the rick will wait, And long will wait the fold, And long will stand the empty plate, And dinner will be cold.'

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