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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

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The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

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

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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

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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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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

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What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

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I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

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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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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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