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on erudition, mandarine said:
"Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary" more...
on ambrosia, mandarine said:
"Vegetal ambrosia, precious grain scattered
By the eternal Sower, I shall descend in you
So that from our love there will be born poetry,
Which will..." more...
on veranda, mandarine said:
"Meet me on my vast veranda
My sweet untouched Miranda

The Decemberists, "We Both Go Down Together", from Picaresque (2005)
In March 2005, the..." more...
on murmur, mandarine said:
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the..." more...
on willow, mandarine said:
"We hanged our harps on the willows.
Bible, Psalm cxxxvii. 2." more...
on book, mandarine said:
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau" more...
on simplicity, mandarine said:
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a..." more...
on proof, mandarine said:
"A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
Thales (635 BC - 543 BC)" more...
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