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"There are some phrases truly impregnated with the freshness of the sea and the smell of roses carried by the breeze."

(from a letter Marcel Proust is writing to a friend)

Proposition:
Just your favorite phrase,sentence,line of the moment. From a book, proze or poetry.
From a newspaper,magazine,the street,whatever. Past present or future. With the source it came from. No limit of date or contributions. No prizes to be won but to be among other people's favorite phrases.
Maybe this has been done before, but favorite lines change with time.

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Couple of mine are from Three Penny Opera:

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

Tr. First feed the belly, then talk right from wrong.

and

Die im Dunkeln sieht man nicht.

Tr. You don't see the one in the dark.

Note regarding Fressen. In German there are two words for eating, essen is the eating as done by humans and fressen is the eating as done by animals. I take the Three Penny line to mean that one eats for survival before one worries about morality.

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I favor those too. May I answer with a line from the same Brecht-Weil source:

'Meine Schwester und ich stammen aus Louisana, wo die Wassern des Mississippi untern Monde fliessen.
'My sister and I are from Louisiana, where the waters of the Mississippi flow under the moon.'

Fromthe Opera The seven Carnal Sins.

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I would have to think long and hard about this one and get back to you, but from Laverne:

--He was the kind if you got in trouble you didn't look to see if he was still with you--you knew damned well he was--Louis LaMour

--The biggest barrier to becoming rich is living like you're rich before you are---Knight Kiplinger


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"You can not have with out, that which you do not have with in." -Unknown

Basically means that how ever you see yourself is how the world is going to treat you.


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(Date "within" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references))

Hello AlimaeHP, your line kept me busy thinking.Most of the time what your line means may be true, but fortunately it is also possible that the world treats you better than you think of yourself.

I'm here to improve my knowledge of your language. So I learned that
without and within are written as one word. While compared to where I come from you use words far more often seperately. We stick much and many more words together and I had to unlearn that in English.
I hope they did not change the rules in the meantime, for then that which I say may be incorrect.
Anyway I hope you don't mind me saying this.

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No you are correct, I am not sure what I was thinking when I posted my reply. They are correctly written as without and within.

Chalk it up to getting grey hairs, seven kids, and just finding out I have a fifth grandbaby on the way. Ack! I am only 35! Make it stop, make it stop.


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A favorite line of mine from the wonderful poetry of W.B.Yeats

And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

_______________________________ The Song of the Wandering Aengus 1899

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THAT'S more work than words can say..........

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Quote:

A favorite line of mine from the wonderful poetry of W.B.Yeats

And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

_______________________________ The Song of the Wandering Aengus 1899




Yes, Yeats is wonderful! I like
Gyring, spiring to and fro/in those great ignorant leafy ways

from
"The Two Trees"

and
Had I but raised my bridle hand, as I have held it low,
the little jackals that flee so fast were feasting all in a row.
Had I but bowed my head on my breast, as I have held it high,
the kite that whistles above us now were gorged till she could not fly.

Kipling, of course, "The Ballad of East and West"

and, ibid

The dun he leaned against the rein and slugged his head above,
but the red mare played with the snaffle-bars like a maiden plays with a glove.

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