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There’s one good kind of writer — a dead one.
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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to...
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits....
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him....
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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured...
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear...
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments...
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to...