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Page 33 - The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Page 154 - Our England is a garden that is full of stately views. Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues. With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by; But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye.
Page 1 - correct' portrait of the bridge. It is only a moonlight scene, and the pier in the centre of the picture may not be like the piers at Battersea Bridge as you know them in broad daylight. As to what the picture represents, that depends upon who looks at it. To some persons it may represent all that is intended; to others it may represent nothing.
Page 57 - As for the ungodly, it is not so with them; but they are like the chaff, which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth.