Source: The Conquest of Bread (1892), Ch. 1 : Our Riches, p. 57
“When all of genius which can perish dies.”
Source: Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816), Line 22.
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Source: The Conquest of Bread (1892), Ch. 1 : Our Riches
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John Lennon interview with Rolling Stone magazine (December 1970)
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