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«Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
aggravation, aggravations, annoyed, complaint, consume, draught, draughts, extra, minor, soot, taciturnity
«The ordinary novel would trace the history of the diamond - but I say, `Diamond, what! This is carbon.' And my diamond may be coal or soot and my theme is carbon.»
«When my mother died, I was very young, / And my father sold me while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry `'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' / So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
chimneys, mother tongue, soot, sweep
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