Odell Shepard Quotes
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For what I give, not what I take,
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The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.
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One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.
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There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.
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If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.
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It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
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There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn — noble, chaste, fierce yet beneficent, altruistic though solitary, strangely beautiful — is the clearest exception of all.