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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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Life would be dull without them.

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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

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Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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Most people are other people.

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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

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Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.

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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

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