You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
(Studies in Classic American Literature, 1923)
D. H. Lawrence
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What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time! Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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