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Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

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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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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

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Appearances are often deceiving.

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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

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

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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

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In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out.

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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

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

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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

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

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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

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