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• Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

  ― David Herbert Lawrence
  English writer (1885 - 1930)
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• The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

  ― Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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• You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

  ― Thomas Traherne
  British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• dodge-town
• victorious
• swallowed
• prospects
• pleasing
• success

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