"Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet."

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Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.

— Maurice Maeterlinck