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"Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire." »Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
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"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them." »Homer
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"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them." »Homer, The Odyssey
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"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom" »H. G. Wells
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"When they come downstairs from their ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama." »E.M. Cioran
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"Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head." »Ambrose Bierce
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"An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh." »Will Rogers
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"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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