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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

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The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

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If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

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The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

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Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

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There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

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The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

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Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.

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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

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Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

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Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

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Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.

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