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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

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

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

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Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

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In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

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Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

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We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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

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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

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

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out.

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

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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

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