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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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

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

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

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

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

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Poets wish to profit or to please.

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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

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I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

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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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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

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