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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and...
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Genius – To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises...
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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope,...
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Everything has its limit–iron ore cannot be educated into gold. – 1906
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If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What...
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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes...
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The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as...