“Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?”
4 <br class="br"> The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)
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Context: They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,
And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.
It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,
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“Someone tell me why my road
is eternally strewn with ashes.”
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Act I
Peter Pan (1904)
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as cited in Landscape Painting and Modern Dutch Artists, E. B. Greenshields https://ia902605.us.archive.org/6/items/landscapepaintin00greeuoft/landscapepaintin00greeuoft.pdf; The Copp, Clark, Co. Limited, Toronto, 1906, p. 150 <br class="br">Jacob Maris painted many 'Dutch City' paintings, in which he combined different parts of the cities Amsterdam, Dordrecht, Delft and Rotterdam
Clifford Geertz book The Interpretation of Cultures
Source: The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), p. 45
“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”
Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
The God-Seeker (1949)
Context: It did seem sounder to build houses which he could build than to teach children a gospel which he did not altogether understand in a Sioux language which he could not quite speak. He reflected, 'If I could put over some kind of equality for Mark Shadrock and Black Wolf, that would be enough heavenly progress for me.' ~ Ch. 53