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I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.


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There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.



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A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.



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Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.



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What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.



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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.



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Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.





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