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«Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.»
«The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
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Writing
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«Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.»
«My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.»
Author: Rodney Dangerfield
(Comedian)
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«Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come»
«The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.»
«To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.»
«O Baba, Maya deceives with its illusion. Deceived by doubt, the discarded bride is not received into the Lap of her Beloved.»
«The seasons alter: hoary-headed frostsFall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.»
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