A. E. Housman

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And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.