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Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap … read more ➮

If you can keep your head when all about you  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;  If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,  But make allowance for their doubting too;  If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,  Or, being lied about, don’ … read more ➮

Flat horizon glowing, wind screetching over, blowing out the candles flicker, dull orange glowing thicker over flat, blue, sickly snow  Out the lights - one and two, in creeps the cold, cold blue, wiggle under deep, dark cloth, warmth comes from night’s sleep sloth, in the warm, orange, hugging … read more ➮