"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."
-Havelock Ellis
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"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.“
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"I write poetry in order to live more fully."
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"For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ."
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