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The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.

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White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

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All human history moves towards one great goal

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There's no police like Holmes.

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I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

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Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.

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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

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What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

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Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

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British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

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His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

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A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

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Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.

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