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

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

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

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

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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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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

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All right, then, I'll go to hell.

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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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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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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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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

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Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

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If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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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 thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

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