Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.
Lennart MeriAbout author
- Author's profession: Statesman
- Nationality: estonian
- Born: March 29, 1929
- Died: March 14, 2006
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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn. Stand shadowless like silence, listening. To silence, for no lonely bird would sing. Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn; --Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright. With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.
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