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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

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Evil is whatever distracts.

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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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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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God doesn't know things. He is things.

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In literature imitations do not imitate.

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

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Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

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