Old-Fashioned Fruitcake
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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade
I learned
to sit at desk
and condense
No layoff
from this
condensery
from Poet’s Work by Lorine Niedecker
Spring! Spring is too wonderful to be encapsulated by just one quote, but here are three who’ve tried:
“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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“Spring beckons! All things to the call respond;
the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.”
Ellis Peters
What’s your favourite Spring quote – and what’s your favourite season? I love them all, but if I ruled the universe, Winter would only last for a month!