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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Quote by Francis Bacon about merit, public, man

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.

Quote by Kenneth Grahame about literature, dark, air