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All great art and literature is propaganda.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

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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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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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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

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In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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Evil is only good perverted.

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To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

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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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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

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

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