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Book: Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History
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  1. John Steinbeck _ Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir

    It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ever to do anything well.
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  2. John Steinbeck _ Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir

    In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself. Whatever the vacillations of other people, I thought myself terrifically constant. But now, here I am, dragging a frayed line, and my anchor gone.
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  3. John Steinbeck _ Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir

    ...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely that you will become a great man -- if only you remain a little child. All the world'sgreat have been little boys who wanted the moon; running and climbing, they sometimes catch a firefly. But if one grow to a man's mind, that mind must see that it cannot have the moon and would not want it if it could -- and so, it catches no fireflies.' {Merlin}
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  4. John Steinbeck _ Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir

    He has come to be the great man he thought he wanted to be. If this is true, then he is not a man. He is still a little boy and wants the moon.
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  5. John Steinbeck _ Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir

    Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.
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