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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

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Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

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Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

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Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

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I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

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