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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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Appearances are often deceiving.

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Never pursue literature as a trade.

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

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

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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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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

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Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

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What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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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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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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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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