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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

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He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

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Fidelity is the sister of justice.

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Writers speak stench.

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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

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