Quote by George Moore
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something,

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. – George Moore

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The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – George Moore

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