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Robert Browning Quotes: When a man's busy leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
         

When a man's busy leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.


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It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.

It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.



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