We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after...

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after...

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you...

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you...

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who...

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who...

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but...

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but...

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of...

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of...

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and...

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and...

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends....

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends....

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out...

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out...

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write...

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write...

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to...

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to...

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that...

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that...