Charles Eastman Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa)
1902 · Great Plains, North America · United States
WHAT boy would not be an Indian for a while when he thinks of the freest life in the world? This life was mine.
Indian Boyhood, the opening
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Banjo Paterson A. B. Paterson
1889 · New South Wales, Australia
I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall
"Clancy of the Overflow"
Henry David Thoreau
1854 · Massachusetts, USA
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Walden
Oscar Wilde
1892 · Ireland · Britain
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Lady Windermere's Fan, Act 3, spoken by Lord Darlington
Banjo Paterson A. B. Paterson
1889 · New South Wales, Australia · Envying his old friend Clancy, gone droving into the outback
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended, And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars.
"Clancy of the Overflow"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1774 · Frankfurt, Germany · Weimar
How glad I am to be away! Dearest friend, what a thing is the human heart!
Wie froh bin ich, daß ich weg bin! Bester Freund, was ist das Herz des Menschen!
The Sorrows of Young Werther, the first letter
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