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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

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In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.

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I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country.

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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

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There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.

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Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.

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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

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Leave my loneliness unbroken

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Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

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I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

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No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

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Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

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A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

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And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...

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The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

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In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

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There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

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O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest

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