The Best Thing the Galoshes Did

“Every dead body is a sphinx of immortality.”

The Clerk’s Transformation

We will not grudge him the little walk; after so much sitting, it will no doubt be beneficial to him.

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Air and light are the flower’s lovers, but light is the favored one. It turns towards the light, and when light vanishes, it folds its petals and sleeps in the arms of the air.

“Light adorns me,” said the flower.

“But the air enables thee to breathe,” whispered the poet.

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“All the clever and beautiful things one hears of and speaks about in dreams, are like the underground treasure; when one digs it up, it looks rich and beautiful, and in the daylight it is but stones and faded leaves.”

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“Sing something that makes one laugh. By laughing you show that you possess the highest mental accomplishments. Have you ever seen a horse or a dog laugh? No, they can cry out; but laugh—only man has the gift of laughing.”