It is imperative that there should be some who dare speak, and think, and act as though all men were happy; for otherwise, when the day comes for destiny to throw open to all the people's garden of the promised land, what happiness shall the others find there, what justice, what beauty or love? It may be urged, it is true, that it were best, first of all, to consider the most pressing needs, yet is this not always wisest; it is often of better avail from the start to seek that which is highest.
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Belgian poet and playwright MAURICE MAETERLINCK (1862-1949) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. Among his most famous works are the play The Blue Bird (1908) and his first volume of verse, Les Cherres Chaudes (Hot House Blooms) (1899).
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- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte on page 84, and page 86
- Wuthering Heights (Penguin Readers Level 6) by Emily Bronte on page 84, and page 86
- Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics) by Emily Brontė on page 84, and page 86
- The Treasure Of The Humble by Maurice Maeterlinck in Front Matter
- The Three Brontes by May Sinclair on 4 pages
- The Idea of Tragedy in Ancient and Modern Drama: Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, February, 1900. With a Prefatory Note by A. W. Pinero by William Leonard Courtney on page 41, page 88, and page 89
- Wisdom and Destiny by Maurice Maeterlinck in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Quotations for All Occasions by Catherine Frank on page 135, and page 219
- Hundred-Point-Men (Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 10) (v. 10) by Fra Elbert Hubbard on page 168, and page 169
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