I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly … - Peg Bracken

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Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

Peg Bracken

I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted. ' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.

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