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

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

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

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

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Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].

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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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

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

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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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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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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

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We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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