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Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

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Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

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Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

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Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

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God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

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Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

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Coal is a portable climate.

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There is a crack in everything God has made

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The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.

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Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

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Power educates the potentate.

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Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

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The borrower runs in his own debt.

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Men are what their mothers made them.

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You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.

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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

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Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

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