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1 " It's not to be expected that an ox and an ass should worship at the crib. Animals are always doing the oddest things in the lives of the saints. It's all part of the poetry, the Alice-In-Wonderland side of religion. "
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2 " And we would leave the golden candlelight of the dining-room for the starlight outside and sit on the edge of the fountain, cooling our hands in the water and listening drunkenly to its splash and gurgle over the rocks.‘Ought we to be drunk every night?’ Sebastian asked one morning.‘Yes, I think so.’‘ I think so too. "
3 " There’s nothing wrong in being a physical wreck, you know. There’s no moral obligation to be Postmaster-General or Master of Foxhounds or to live to walk ten miles at eighty. "
4 " it was neither the quality nor the quantity that was at fault. It was the mixture. "
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5 " Ch 3: "How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long summer days of unreflecting dissipation. There is no candor in the story of early manhood which leaves out of account the homesickness for nursery morality. The regrets and resolutions of amendments, the black hours which, like zero on the roulette table, turn up with roughly calculable regularity. "
6 " Mi piacerebbe sotterrare qualcosa di prezioso in ogni posto dove sono stato felice e poi, una volta diventato vecchio brutto e povero, potrei sempre tornare a estrarlo e ricordare. "
7 " These memories, which are my life -- for we possess nothing certainly except the past -- were always with me. "
8 " How good it is to sit in the shade and talk of love "
9 " Open country was easily reached in those days. "