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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

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The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

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Power educates the potentate.

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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

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Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.

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I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

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A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

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Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

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When a man meets his make, society begins.

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A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.

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We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

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