“When you have never known a thing except to dream, it becomes more than a talisman.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
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(15 January 1990)
“A loafer never works except when there's a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.”
Source: Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p171.
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