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

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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

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The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

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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 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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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

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Evil is only good perverted.

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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

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One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

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