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Dreaming men are haunted men.

Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute day by day in all the thousand small unc...

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

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a soun...

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

Remember that when you say ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not lik...

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There is a wilderness we walk aloneHowever well-companioned

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

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

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Stephen Vincent Benét

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Born: 1898-07-22

Died: 1943-03-13

Stephen Vincent Benét (22 July 1898 – 13 March 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer and novelist.More