Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
Thomas Moore
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- Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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