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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

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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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Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

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

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

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

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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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

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Fidelity is the sister of justice.

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And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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

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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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