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«An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.»
Author: Augustine Birrell
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surround
«Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world»
«First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them go get on with it.»
«A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.»
Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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admission, discoverer, discoverers, Great Idea, surround
«Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.»
Author: Sally Koch
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Solidarity
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every day, help, ones, opportunities, seldom, small, surround
«I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
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alone, break, morally, no matter, obnoxious, responsible, responsible for, rules, surround, tolerable, tolerate, tolerating
«Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.»
«A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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righteous, surround, swamps, The Swamp, woods
«Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you!»
«It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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