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In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small...
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Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden...
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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character...
Quote #17714
He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.
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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or...
Quote #14223
… put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Quote #4747
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
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Why shoudn’t truth be stranger than fiction Fiction, after all, has to stick to...
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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,...
Quote #7938
I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts.