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Fame is the thirst of youth.

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Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

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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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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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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

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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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And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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The victor belongs to the spoils.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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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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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

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

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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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

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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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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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